“Light painting, painting with light, light drawing, or light art performance photography are terms that describe photographic techniques of moving a light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or space, or to shine light at the camera to ‘draw’, or by moving the camera itself during exposure of light sources.” -Wikipedia I’ve been working with a…
Category: Night
Night Sky, Joshua Tree Parkway
Last evening, I ventured out with Barry Stewart to a location west of Wickenburg, AZ along a stretch of Highway 93 called the Joshua Tree Parkway. We exited the highway and followed an “unimproved” road into the desert, among the Joshua trees. We located a good site, where we set up our equipment and were…
Light Painting
I recently participated in an evening photo shoot with fellow members of the Canmore Camera Club. This particular form of photography is new to me and it was a great learning experience. It’s a technique that can really produce some striking results. It’s credited to an American photographer, Eric Curry who produces some truly amazing…
Milky Way from Spray Lake
Astrophotography is a specialized type of photography for recording photos of astronomical objects (the moon, for example), celestial events (eclipses, meteor showers) and areas of the night sky (the Milky Way, constellations). I’ve photographed a little of each and by far, I prefer capturing images of the Milky Way, a galaxy. With a few exceptions, astronomical photography…
Favourites from this Week
I had a very busy week, photographically. I’m still working on some material from a trip to Utah, to be posted in a later blog. In the interim, I wish to share two very interesting shots I captured this week. The first was taken on the way home from the Utah trip, where we over-nighted…