I'm kind of surprised at how nicely they turned out.
Loraine and I went for a night-time stroll a few evenings back, and ended up at the walking piers in Marquette's lower harbor. It wasn't snowing, although it was a little chilly. It lent a nice, crisp air to everything, and when we ended up at the piers, lit up for the night as usual, they just looked...pretty. So I did something I usually don't do—I took out my phone and took a picture--
I don't like to take night (or low light) shots without a tripod; depending upon the camera you'll get a bad exposure or a fuzzy picture or just a glob of light. But things looked just right, and thanks to the lights on the pier the shot turned out nicely.
Or, at least, I think so.
Once on the pier, I looked back at the city, saw another nice shot, and (despite my usual reticence at night time photography) took another phone picture of the glorious place in which we live--
Then on the way back home, strolling through the Rosewood Walkway, there seemed to be enough light for one last shot. Specifically, this one--
I don't know if there was just enough light in all of these pictures, or if the cold air did something to sharpen the images, but all three pictures—taken with a phone camera, of all things—prove that even at night, you can get some amazing shots. I guess that when I joke it's hard to take a bad picture in Marquette I wasn't kidding.
And that was even before taking those pictures in the dark.
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