From New Walk Centre to Venus

Another fantastic visit to Leicester City Council HQ, New Walk Centre. The city council have been inviting artists to the 12th floor, on four Sundays, in 2013 to capture views from the building and respond to it before the building is moved out of and mothballed.

Here are my thoughts in blips on previous visits..
June 23rd
September 22nd

Also here are two analogue images from September 22nd.
The St George's Cluster
Towards the Copt Oak Transmission Towers

Today's visit was a bit special because we were in the building across the sunset and experienced a beautiful and colourful sky with Venus ( visible in the left of frame) sweeping above the twilight city. Rather than savoring the nearby city centres clusters of peaks and troff, this time my eyes were very much drawn to the horizon with distance objects somehow being pulled ever closer by the fading light; wind turbines in superb autumn-light definition on the southern horizon, steam rising from Ratcliffe On Soar to the north, radio towers from far far away with red lights shining serenely above the tungsten night haze, little reminders there are other cities out there, a world elsewhere....

The furthest terrestrial object I could make out was the radio mast at Sutton Coldfield north of Birmingham, some 30 miles away! Just one of seven, no less, radio broadcast sites visible from the 12th floor.