Note: all the photos here are smaller versions.  Clicking on them gets you to a larger one.

This is probably one of the best photos I’ve ever taken:

It took a bit over an hour: 20 minutes each way to get to the orchard, about 10 minutes to set up and then just under 42 minutes to do the shot itself.  Clicking on the image will get you the link with exposure details, film settings, etc., but clicking here will get you a version that’s a bit larger.

I decided to share this photo for a few reasons, but primarily because it’s pretty damned cool.

Funny sidenote: I applied to iStockPhoto the other day– I got rejected, but not badly so– it basically boiled down to “all your photos are the same– we want to see some diversity.”  Since most of what I do is bird photography, I can see their point– I gave them three images, all of birds, all kind of similar.  From my POV, they were very different images- one was of a green heron, another of a savannah sparrow and the third of a magnolia warbler.  

To me, these are strikingly different photos, but I can see how they’d want me to show them diversity of subject matter rather than just diversity of bird.  They asked me to resubmit in a few days with more variety so I’ll be including at least one of the photos from this set, as well as a really nice toad photo I took last summer and I’m not sure if the third one will be birds again or something very different.  

Anyway, live and learn.

This…

is a 7 minute, 22 second exposure.  I used Christmas lights attached to a pole, turning them on and off to create a tunnel pattern. I used to think 7 minutes was a really long exposure.  Not so much now 🙂

Spirals created with laser light pens:

3d spiral effect:

Night sky w/wood factory and traffic:

Plum Island, MA, at night:

                               


                               

And… videos:

I’ve been having fun playing with light in this new way– where I collapse movement of objects into time.  I may do some more of it tonight.