Denver Botanic Gardens Parking Lot

So I had to go to a staff meeting at the Denver Botanic Gardens last night, and despite my hopes for the presentation to be in some sort of tropical greenhouse filled with birds and butterflies, it was in a tiled, window-less room in the basement with fluorescent lights and white boards.  I had brought my camera, hoping for some good shots, and though they were nothing like I was imagining, I had a total party.  I spent an hour after the meeting was over wandering in the chilly Denver air without a jacket (which I had forgotten), but it was worth a little hypothermia because I found amazingly amazing shots.  I'm so excited!  And I have responses to two of the challenges.  I'm going to go in chronological order and post the 2nd challenge: in this case, rural/suburban in the urban, and then I have to go through and edit the images for the night shot challenge.

These aren't my absolute favorite images of the night, I thought I would save the best for next, but I do like them as a response to the challenge.  And together, partially because they are slightly different interpretations of the same space, but also because the focus is working exactly the same way in all of them.  I forgot my tripod, so I was setting the camera down on surfaces and had the aperture at like a 3.5 to try and have shorter exposure times.  So they all have a band of in-focusness kind of in the middle ground while the fore and back-grounds are blurry.  It's just working for me with these images, I dunno.

And in case I don't talk to you before, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!