(265k) The first two pictures are from Hohenau, the first train stop after crossing the border from Czechia to Austria. The ÖBB adherence to the non-glaring lighting, using luminaires with horizontal glass below is remarkable.
May 2 05:49, im002379.jpg
(265k) May 2 05:49, im002380.jpg
(266k) This other type of lamp is from Judenburg.
May 2 11:50, im002381.jpg
(255k) This is an adapted lamp in Venice. In the San Marco part, there are still incandescent bulbs used, which are tolerably faint. In many places in Venice, however, the incandescents have been unfortunately replaced by mercury vapour bulbs. They are offensive and in many cases the fixtures had to be adapted by simply painting their window sides.
May 2 17:22, im002386.jpg
(288k) A twilight view of Canale Grande: the light on the ships, the only ones which should be prominent, are much fainter than the glaring lights on the pier.
May 2 20:19, im002389.jpg
(393k) Those several strong sodium lights illuminating really the San Marco square are not more apparent from the side than the hundreds of just decorative lights (I'm not sure if they aren't a bit too bright). The strongly lit place at the right is a concert podium.
May 2 21:07, im002392.jpg
(384k) May 2 21:08, im002393.jpg
(386k) The views from the Rialto pier shows that the Rialto itself is illuminated rather decently.
May 2 21:48, im002394.jpg
(351k) However, in the opposite seaside direction there are some glaring lights.
May 2 21:49, im002395.jpg
(336k) May 2 21:50, im002396.jpg
(246k) A series of images (rather bad ones) from the meeting ``Let's save the night'' in the Palazzo Papadoppoli.
May 3 09:24, im002397.jpg
(287k) May 3 09:46, im002398.jpg
(279k) May 3 10:51, im002399.jpg
(277k) May 3 11:11, im002400.jpg
(293k) May 3 13:48, im002402.jpg
(379k) May 3 13:48, im002403.jpg
(141k) Three views of another luminaire, painted by the utility itself (I guess from the fact, that the green paint is the same as on the arm) to protect the people living behind the nearest window.
May 4 12:14, im002417.jpg
(324k) May 4 12:18, im002418.jpg
(186k) May 4 12:20, im002419.jpg
(143k) This type of lamp is used on many piers. These ones are not fully shielded in fact, in spite of having a horizontal glass below. There is some very small part of light left to penetrate into the translucent top of the lamp.
May 4 14:35, im002446.jpg
(160k) May 4 14:36, im002448.jpg
(136k) An unusual installation over this pier, I'm afraid it's overkill at night, as HID sources are used instead of small fluorescent ones. Just the geometry seems OK.
May 4 15:18, im002452.jpg
(285k) May 4 19:41, im002469.jpg
(328k) May 4 19:43, im002470.jpg
(231k) A twilight panorama over the main channel, through spectral glasses and a blue-mood camera. A proof that most lights are MV ones, you can also find a couple of LPS lamps. The horrible glare from some (oversaturated) HPS ones is apparent from their strong spectra.
May 4 20:46, im002472.jpg
(231k) The strong HPS on the church does not illuminate it, it points toward us, strange. May 4 20:47, im002473.jpg
(235k) May 4 20:48, im002474.jpg
(274k) These four images are already from the port in Napoli. Fully shielded lamps, perfectly levelled.
May 5 12:19, im002481.jpg
(290k) May 5 12:20, im002482.jpg
(137k) May 5 12:22, im002483.jpg
(267k) May 5 12:23, im002484.jpg
(283k) The lamps over the parking lot by the western end of the port are flat-glass ones, mounted as tilted, however. Just with an additional shield they would be OK.
May 5 12:28, im002485.jpg
(147k) May 5 12:28, im002486.jpg
(248k) An old fully shielded luminaire with two linear fluorescents and an open bottom, on the railway to Frosinone
May 5 15:06, im002494.jpg
(300k) A new lamp with two tubes, with flat glass and mirrors inside.
May 5 15:17, im002495.jpg
(166k) Frosinone series begins. This lamp is not a FS one, but its inside is, the bulb is in a mirror cavity directing the light as needed. Some eight per cent light is inevitably reflected steep upwards, but the most harmful almost horizontal component may be fairly low.
May 5 16:02, im002496.jpg
(302k) Most of the adapted or replaced lamps are in the original tilted positions. However, no glare along the road!
May 5 16:03, im002497.jpg
(210k) A street with nice, open-bottom FS lamps.
May 5 16:04, im002498.jpg
(215k) May 5 16:05, im002499.jpg
(161k) Old lamps, now fully shielded, Frosinone ``uptown'' visible behind.
May 5 16:19, im002500.jpg
(229k) May 5 16:23, im002501.jpg
(147k) Area lighting, fully shielded.
May 5 16:25, im002502.jpg
(274k) May 5 16:30, im002504.jpg
(144k) May 5 16:42, im002505.jpg
(175k) May 5 16:50, im002506.jpg
(134k) Again on the Frosinone railway station (within an hour between the trains, I did not manage it to the very centre and back). The linear fluorescent lamps are perfectly levelled mostly.
May 5 16:57, im002507.jpg
(227k) May 5 17:00, im002508.jpg
(127k) A detail of a pair of new HID FS lamps.
May 5 17:02, im002509.jpg
(279k) This lamp over a board is rather tilted, spoiling the visibility of the board at night.
May 5 17:03, im002510.jpg
(279k) May 5 17:03, im002511.jpg
(280k) Two fully shielded lamps on the way from Frosinone to Roma.
May 5 17:12, im002512.jpg
(181k) A series of the lamps near the Roma Termini railway station. Open bottoms, which enable a wrong use with the bulbs reaching further down. But all the lamps on the pictures are correct.
May 5 18:36, im002513.jpg
(178k) May 5 18:40, im002514.jpg
(188k) May 5 18:41, im002515.jpg
(164k) May 5 18:47, im002516.jpg
(307k) The fully shielded fluorescent lamps have their luminances lower than the information boards, when in distance. The lamps by the building are tilted away from it, contributing to some glare. Visually it is not so bad as on the picture.
May 5 23:20, im002517.jpg
(233k) Back in Hohenau in the morning, the end of any new fully shielded lamps over the railway -- this is yet to be done in Czechia.
May 6 10:33, im002521.jpg