Canary Wharf winter lights

Part of my light shows series.

In the cold of January I visited Canary Wharf’s annual light show. It’s a mix of repeat installations and new work, and a mix of decent and not so decent. For a free event, worth a visit. And good to practice the tricky art of nighttime lighting installation photography.

A close crop of of a lighting installation formed from many rings stacked in front of each other, with the inside of the ring light up in solid white. Seen from the front you can see many partial solid arks of white in a geometric pattern.

Kinetic perspective, by Juan Fuentes

2024/01/24
1/400s at f/4, 200mm, ISO 1600, Nikon D850

A lighting installation with multiple vertical thin bars of blue light receding in to the distance. A woman is stood near to one with her back to the bars, but looking up at them - her face is illuminated in blue light.

On the wave of light, by Those Guys Lighting

2024/01/24
1/400s at f/4, 200mm, ISO 7200, Nikon D850

A dark photo with ball shaped object on the left and surrounded by dots of light like stars. The object is similar to a mirror ball but with flat faces and lit up like an old CRT TV.

Geist, by This is Loop

2024/01/24
1/125s at f/2.8, 62mm, ISO 400, Nikon D850

A lighting installation with thousands of coloured lights. The room is filled with strings of round ball-shaped lights hung from the ceiling. The image is focussed on as ingle strand with three ball lights visible - and many thousands of coloured lights blurred behind.

Submergence, by Squidsoup

2024/01/24
1/320s at f/4, 150mm, ISO 8000, Nikon D850

Smoke swirls are lit up by laser beams in blue.

Vessels, by Limbic Cinema

2024/01/24
1/400s at f/4.5, 200mm, ISO 16000, Nikon D850

A laser beam projects shapes from above on to the ground. It has traced a large red hexagon, with a small pink square inside.

Vessels, by Limbic Cinema

2024/01/24
1/50s at f/4, 95mm, ISO 6400, Nikon D850

A laser beam projects from above on to the ground. It has traced an octagon shape.

Vessels, by Limbic Cinema

2024/01/24
1/60s at f/4, 70mm, ISO 1800, Nikon D850

A close crop of a lighting installation made from thousands of short light sticks. Each light stick rhythmically glows orange. In the close crop, some sticks are unlit and the overall image has the appearance of fire.

Sign, by Vendel & De Wolf

2024/01/24
1/400s at f/4, 200mm, ISO 2500, Nikon D850

Part of my light shows series. Shot at Canary Wharf in London.