York At Night

One of the reasons I love night photography, is the way a scene changes utterly after dark.  Even the most ordinary building can come alive with good lighting.  Lighting schemes can vary greatly from place to place.  In York, many of the streets in the centre of town had strings of bulbs running their entire length.  It was as if they had left their Christmas decorations up.  Disappointingly, the Minster lacked external lighting.  Whereas several of the gates on the city wall were lit by nets of small blue-white lights.  The historic Shambles was particularly atmospheric at night, showing how it was, apparently, the inspiration for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books (as evidenced by the fact that the street boasts not one, not two, but three Harry Potter shops).