A "Ring Of Fire "; Cape Town Stadium. 2010/03/04

When I noticed on Thursday while having dinner outside on my terrace that the "ring of fire" was switched on I wanted to shoot it but not from my home, so I drove to a place higher up Signal Hill but by the time I arrived

I was only able to take 3 shots

a couple of minutes later ..

when I looked up from my camera they had switched it off

and it looked like this

If you always look at my blog during the day
then I recommend  looking at the photos at night
they come much more alive

Happy Valentine's day

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Sunset Evening and Night shot of the new World Cup 2010 Green Point Stadium

How beautiful the sunset was We are in the middle of a spell of exeptional beautiful warm weather and its supposed to be mid winter here !
There was not a cloud to be seen

Cape Town by night As seen from Signal Hill

The first time I saw this view which is about 3 years ago, I was absolutely mesmerised by the beauty of it, what you can't see here is how the city is sitting snug inside the surrounding mountains ..Devils Peak, Table Mountain, Lion's Head and Signal Hill on 3 sides then the sea on the 4rth side
This was the blue hour....after sunset but before darkness I find it difficult to capture this time of the day,I was disappointed and always get annoyed with myself :) for not getting it right

So I went back and tried again this time waiting for total darkness but I am still not satisfied ofcourse there is a nickling voice in my head saying its the camera ! :)

My question is which one do you think is the better photograph this one or the top one ?