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Originally Posted by merrylander
We have a modest post light in front of the house more as a conenience to our neighbors as there are no street lights here. For the burglars we have motion operation 300 watt halogens.
So far no one has bitched about the post light.
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Has anyone bitched about the 300W burglar halogens?
Automatic lights piss me off as I walk at night. It reminds me of being watched. The equivalent sensation from Germany was seeing curtains swing as I walked by. The bastards are watching me.
But those emotions and memories are not why I write tonight. Instead I write because I ran across a thread on an astrophotography board that reminded me of this thread. Here it is:
http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/55.../#entry7555146
In a nutshell, one photographer was making progress on an image that takes several nights to complete. During that time someone erected a swinging searchlight type of advertising in his field of view. The photographer felt dejected.
A second photographer came to his aid and explained that statistics and optical filters can probably ignore the swinging searchlights.
Somewhere between the emotions of those two photographers is where I feel about city lighting. Their emotions are as real as the light. No?