Illumination can be for effect…
White lighting emphasises the design of the building at night.
function…
St.Pancras International – functional night time illumination.
It can be Muted…
Muted lighting – a walkway inside the Tate Modern.
It can be to highlight a special building…
St.Pauls Cathedral illuminated at night with the Millenium Bridge.
It can Advertise…
The Time Out office on Tottenham Court Road.
Adverts bring colour to the night time streets…
Advert on the Imax Cinema at Waterloo.
Images of London Illuminations would be incomplete without Piccadilly Circus…
The adverts at Piccadilly Circus lend an eerie glow to the damp road surface.
wonderful take on the theme martin, terrific photos such as the bus and cinema, st pauls, and st pancras, somehow they fill me with delight, thanks for walking about at night and taking all these
Thank you Christine. I enjoy a night time walk with the camera. Central London is blessed with much that is illuminated
I like you picures!
Thank You
brill pictures love the atmosphere they can create..;) thanks ..
Thanks Gerry
Looking at your pictures, I realized how much I miss London!
I hope I haven’t made you homesick! Thanks for the like and the comment
Well, just thinking of London makes me homesick
But on the contrary, your pictures showed me London´s beauty and reminded me of all the reasons why I love this city so much.
Well London does have its less beautiful bits too! Though they can be great for us photographers
I’m sure that you will find much to love about your current hometown
If you see London through the eye of a camera, everything seems beautiful, doesn´t it?
Nice selection!
Thank you
Some great illumination photos Martin. I like the way you captured the 2nd one. For some reason that one really stands out as special to me.
Thanks Tony – I like that one too. Perhaps it’s something about the way the taxi’s are circling like sharks in the street outside
Wow… you make these challenges look easy, Martin!
I have a large back-catalogue Bob so there’s usually something there to fit most challenges. And I just love going out with the camera at all times of the day / night
It’s a very illuminating gallery! Well done!
LoL – Thank you
Some of the other photos have some lovely artistic effects, but I love the photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral. It even captures the spotlight coming up from the ground. Perfect for the weekly photo–Illumination!
Thank you Debra
Of course, St.Pauls was sometimes inadvertantly illuminated by searchlights during The Blitz but this time it’s deliberate 
I used to work in a place called Faraday Building – The square tower on the extreme left of the image is part of that building.
Your creativity is busting out big-time.
Wonderfully imaginative shots and captions.
But I would never ever recognize Piccadilly Circus. It looks more like Times Square than like London to me!
Thanks Judith – I have no idea which holds precedence… This is how Piccadilly has always looked to me. But it is the only part of London that has all those illuminated ads.