Regular as clockwork (or should that perhaps be calendar work, given that it’s an annual thing?) the holiday season comes along and cities go nuts with hanging up lights and decorations in the streets and squares. I am absolutely fine with this tradition, in fact I definitely enjoy it! Especially after the ultra doomy, gloomy, dark and rainy November we had this year I feel we’ve definitely earned it!

Given how little daylight there is now I figured I’d have a go at some night time photography with the new XT-3 I am carrying around these days. I’ve only done one outing with it at night so far, so I was interested in exploring that some more. Given that I had a meeting scheduled for there later in the evening off to the center of Malmö I went, camera bag packed and ready (although decidedly lighter now that I am not carrying a Canon EOS camera with a battery grip and long zoom lens!).

The pictures in this post are shot on the Fujifilm XT-3 with the kit 18-55 mm lens, during my slow stroll through the streets and squares of central Malmö . I’ve had a go at color and exposure correcting them in Lightroom, since I’ve yet to find the white balance function (you do actually have to read the manual to find that of course) on the camera.

I came across a young couple who I stealthily shot as silhouettes against the backdrop of one of the enormous illuminated trees at Gustaf Adolf Square (the last picture in the gallery above). After they asked me to take a picture of them with their toddler with their cell phone I showed them the picture I had taken of them and they wanted a copy of that. I gave them my card and told them to email me for a copy of the picture, but so far that hasn’t happened. It is nice though to know people like the stuff you shoot! (Not to mention there was an actual use for the business cards I had printed quite a while back!)