Christmas morning

[PiroStitch]

Most people run downstairs and stay inside opening their presents. I go outside for mine. Thanks nature (including the frosty fingers)!

[CraigVTR]

Well worth going outside. What beautiful pictures of a beautiful spot.

[tigerhue]

Love. Nobody insight. At what time did you take this picture?

[Matt. K]

Looks like a fairy tale. Beautiful.

[chrisk]

Wow, how gorgeous is #1 !!

[ozimax]

Superb. Hope you had your long johns on!

[Remorhaz]

OMG - It's in Colour - awesome...

Agree #1 is very nice - lovely golds

[Murray Foote]

These are great, especially number one. Did you use a diffraction filter or did the flare just happen naturally?

[Geoff M]

Great shots - I would think it quite rare to have no people on the streets in such a place.

[PiroStitch]

Thanks everyone.

To answer the general questions:
- Yes it's in colour, though I do have one in black and white
- I took this around 7:15 in the morning. Specs of the photo were - 75s, f8, ASA50.
- There were people around but fortunately they were moving around enough that they didn't appear in the photo. It also helped that it was early Christmas morning so it was unlikely to be crowded. During the day, it tends to be crowded with a combination of tourists, locals and street vendors making this emptiness a fairly rare occurence
- I used a grad filter, I didn't have time to stack the ND as the light was quickly changing and substantially affecting the image dynamics. There was no diffraction filter and the light flares were natural
- I was wearing thermals and a rather thick jacket, though the gloves weren't doing that great a job (incidentally, I lost them later in the morning )

[surenj]

Looks like you were graced with some nice light indeed.

though the gloves weren't doing that great a job (incidentally, I lost them later in the morning )

Hopefully a homeless person found it!