Grim: Timage of a jogger running in front of council estate-style blocks of flats was actually taken during the day with the night-time effect the result of a low shutter speed and ISO setting

All the photographs were shot with a Canon 5D, a high-spec 12.8MP digital SLR aimed at the so-called 'prosumer' market of dedicated amateurs.

However, except for a few lucky finds, many of the haunting images required careful composition and a touch here and there of computer photo editing to get the desired effect.

In some of the shots, Mr Mauve told PetaPixel, he has used an off-camera flash triggered remotely to create the single source of light at just the moment the shot was taken. In others, he has used Photoshop to remove the lights in the scene.

The photo which shows a single light shining from a grand building seen over Prague's Vltava river was shot just as Mr Mauve found it.

Remote: All the photographs were shot with a Canon 5D, a high-spec 12.8MP digital SLR aimed at the so-called 'prosumer' market of dedicated amateurs

Labour of love: Mr Mauve says the effect of light is a major influence on his photography

A forgotten world: The images hark back to an era when nightfall cast the world into inescapable darkness

The British phonebox seen in another of his images was another such stroke of luck, with the old lady standing nearby having simply entered the frame and remained there still as the photo was exposed.

Half a minute later, she disappeared as mysteriously as she arrived.

Other photos required complicated camera trickery. For example, the image of a jogger running in front of council estate-style blocks of flats, which wasn't shot at night at all.

Instead Mr Mauve set up his flash in the scene, lowered his camera's colour temperature then exposed the photo with a very fast shutter speed and low ISO setting.

Strange: A light source emanates mysteriously from the wreckage of a shipping boat in this ghostly image

Quick learner: Mr Mauve began considering photography seriously only three years ago

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