Night City (but no bats 🦇 😊)

The day before yesterday, I was in a park hosting a "night of bats". Did you know that the scientific study of bats is called chiropterology 🦇?

But that's not what my article is about. Although I brought a camera to the event, I had no intention of photographing bats. Truthfully, that would have been quite difficult. A chiropterologist did bring one bat with him, but we mostly saw the others as tiny fluttering dots above the treetops or, after dark, as glowing points in a thermal imaging scope.

I took advantage of returning home after dark and captured night shots of our city.

This isn't a presentation or exhibition – actually, these are all experiments. I photographed in various modes: automatic, semi-automatic, scenic mode, and manual. Essentially, I treated the whole thing as a training exercise.

I actually thought the photos would be more dynamic, with more light trails from passing cars, but it turns out some parts of our city are like ghost towns after 9 PM.

One Technical Note: You've likely noticed the rays around light sources. Some photos have slightly different rays compared to the others. This is because in one case, it's a natural optical phenomenon based on lens and aperture settings, while in the other, it's a result of post-processing on a computer and added digitally. Can you tell which is which?

Still, I hope you'll enjoy the photos.