On Location - Luxor Temple, Luxor, Egypt

Having visited the Karnak Temple during the day I thought it would be interesting to visit Luxor Temple at night.   Whilst night adds atmosphere it provides a lot more challenges from a photography perspective; people and objects cast their shadows, differences in light colour creates colour casts, and consistency and placement in the of lights areas of blinding brightness next to other areas of deep shade etc.  All in all a very interesting place to visit.

Wikipedia:

The Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE. In the Egyptian language it was known as ipet resyt, "the southern sanctuary". It was one of the two primary temples on the east bank, the other being Karnak.  Unlike the other temples in Thebes, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the pharaoh in death. Instead, Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the pharaohs of Egypt were crowned in reality or conceptually (as in the case of Alexander the Great, who claimed he was crowned at Luxor but may never have traveled south of Memphis, near modern Cairo).

To the rear of the temple are chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty, and Alexander. Other parts of the temple were built by Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. During the Roman era, the temple and its surroundings were a legionary fortress and the home of the Roman government in the area. During the Roman period a chapel inside the Luxor Temple originally dedicated to the goddess Mut was transformed into a Tetrarchy cult chapel and later into a church.

Originally, there were two obelisks at the entrance to the temple; the smaller one is now at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.  The Avenue of the Sphinxes goes in a straight line for about 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) between the Luxor Temple and the Karnak area.