Awesome write up David. Wish Leeds would expand their LED lights from the City Centre!Thank you Stelmer! If I recall correctly, Leeds was one of those places that went for a PFI back in the days when there was much more money around, and as a result of installing power-hungry lanterns, the electricity bill shot up. Essex's PFI was due to start in 2010 but was cancelled when Labour were booted out of power in the 2010 General Election. As a result of the cancellation, Essex still retains the vast majority of its old lighting stock and I imagine the power consumption of the county's lights has barely changed since then, but it didn't stop Essex County Council pursuing an arguably aggressive part-night lighting policy. I think this LED trial was probably borne out of the backlash.
If the LED trial is deemed a failure, I wonder if we will get back all the vintage ELECO, GEC, Philips, Phosco and Thorn lanterns we are currently losing!
PS, you should watermark your photos! I know I really ought to, but it's difficult to do without spoiling the image. I do watermark some with my web site logo, but at an opacity of 1-2% so it is barely visible.
Thankfully my pictures start out at 12 megapixels and around 12MB in size, and by the time I upload them for online use, they are around 0.3 megapixels and around 0.05MB in size, so I think there would only be one winner if there was an ownership or copyright dispute.
I take the view that my photographs are not big enough or of a high-enough quality to enable anyone else to make money from them, but I could be wrong. Deliberately reducing the size and quality of the pictures for online use also has the benefit of making them upload quicker on online forums.