It was part of some test night shots I did with my mamiya 7II, I was due to do a paid job so had a quick go beforehand with the camera as hadn't taken any with it.
I spent my new year's eve in Central London this year for a change, we usually go off to Amsterdam but this year we are skint so stayed home.
When browsing through some stuff on my mac I found this again and it reminded me of how much I love living in London and what a top place it can be at times.
There is a firework going off on the right side of this image inbetween the two tall buildings in the foreground, it was a 2 min exposure so it has ended up
as just a red ball of light with some haze around it. So for that reason it made me think of the New Year and stuck it up on the site.
I just left my desk before posting this and have come back to finish off...
I've since forgotten the point I originally wanted to make about this image, it's not my usual sort of thing and I remember not really enjoying taking it at the time.
Standing there for ages for each exposure freezing my bollocks off with a tripod made me realise I am not cut out for the whole night photo shennanegins.
So anyway, I hope you all have a successful 2007 and good things happen, not shit things. Cheers.