Thank you! I am glad that you can feel that there is some improvement 🙂 I thought about the people while shooting, but I preferred to leave it, to give some sense of scale of the building and loneliness of the structure.
This place is easy to picture is a pump in my hometown, where I came for Christmas holidays, I always wanted to picture it. Here inspiration came back and I have many other ideas for night shots now that the winter is over Europe. Lets see if they can fit the next lessons.
I normally use Aperture software, but I never checked about the noise reduction, do you know if it has any feature for that? Maybe in some time I will install Lightroom.
Happy New Year 2013!