Did you check pic #2 ? Seems to be took while it was still day outside.

Mobile phone cameras nowadays alter the brightness automatically a lot, and city lights can keep areas around the camera brightly lit too. It's not possible to judge from a photo any more if it was dusk or dawn, both and even a moonlit night can look bright as a day sometimes. But the light pillars cannot form without a bright light/lamp/neon sign/etc underneath it. In any city those are plentiful. It totally depends on how high the ice crystals float and are all layers of air as packed with them. Sometimes there are missing layers and the pillars continue where there's more ice in the air again. But it takes a few months of observing experience, or a few years, to get familiar with all this variation. If the lights over a sports stadion are blueish-white huge led lamps the pillars can be very bright and quite wide. These are ordinary city lights, one has two lights next to each other. These vary in height but never move side ways like auroral curtains do.

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🤣 The Lord of the Rings movie would not look impressive with these quiet and still pillars! 😄 These ones don't shoot up and these dissappear immediately when you throw a well aimed rock to a boring street lamp or other city light! 😆