Soho, in Neon — London | Michael Wilkins

A dark Soho street at night with a red SOHO neon sign glowing over the road, the vertical Carnaby sign on a blue-lit brick wall, a street lamp bursting into a star at top right, ghosted pedestrians blurred by the long exposure and the lit tower of Centre Point in the distance. — Soho, in Neon
Soho, London · November 2021
1D X Mark II, 35 millimetres, f 22, 25 seconds, ISO 100

The sign says where you are, in case the rest did not.

Most of the frame is black on purpose. What is lit is what matters: the SOHO sign, the Carnaby wall in blue, one street lamp flaring into a star, and the pedestrians turned to ghosts by the exposure. Centre Point at the end of the street is the one thing in the picture taller than the neon. Wet road, or it would not have glowed.

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