It sounds like something from a meme generator, but photographer Calder Wilson was recently experimenting with fireworks hooked to a drone that he flew around while capturing it in long exposure.
French photographer Genaro Bardy tells the Daily Mail:
It turns out there is a moment in the year when streets are totally empty, when people are home or away, when nobody is partying all night long. That moment is Christmas. Between London Bridge and Piccadilly Circus I saw no one, no cars. The city was truly asleep. Very long exposure could erase people walking, although imperfectly, but car lights would ruin any picture. Between 11:00 pm and 4:00 am, it’s pretty hard to find 20 to 30 seconds slots without any cars. But starting at 4:00 am it’s truly magical, almost no one is in the streets.
Los Angeles-based photographer Stuart Palley in his series Terra Flamma has be capturing the last few years of California wildfires.
Included in this set are fires in Yosemite, San Bernardino National Forest, Etiwanda and Shirley Lake.
“Last Dance of the Fairies” was shot by Japanese photographer Yume Cyan near Nagoya City, Japan. In long exposure, the fireflies' blinking draws dashed lines through the dark.
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Patrick Rochon shot the Red Bull Riders doing some amazing wakeboarding on boards outfitted with amazing LCD lighting at the Orlando Watersports Complex.
Russian photographer Evgeniy Zaytsev has created these gorgeous star-trail long-exposure photos.
Japanese photographer Arixxx has created this chillingly beautiful long exposure shots of Japanese cherry blossoms at night.
Photographer Jesús Chapa-Malacara uses his passion as a former ballet dancer to create this gorgeous Dance Prints series. His KICKSTARTER campaign details his vision and ambitious for a bigger and better series.
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Blue Ghost Fireflies, North Carolina
Photograph by Spencer Black
Singapore based photographer, Fong Qi Wei layered different photos of the same spot he shot within 2 to 4 hours, sequencing time in a single image.
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CCTV has a documentary channel, and these four trailers for it translate human motion into digitally sculpted objects that look like steel, water, and wood. The clips were created by Taiwan design house JL Design and KORB.
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In a follow-up to Long Exposure of Lighted Wakeboards at Night from Red Bull, we have Motion to Light Paramotoring.
Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard created this stunning project, Neon Luminance. They Cyalume glow sticks into several Northern Californian waterfalls and then took long exposure photos of the effect. The sticks, sealed up to prevent any leaks, floated down the fall and then were collected by the team, leaving no impact on the falls or their watersheds.
Kevin Cooley's awesome long exposure photos of airplane trails, Nachtfluge
New York-based photographer Brian Maffitt created these stunning long-exposure light painting photos by projecting a movie onto the falling snow of the storm that hit the Northeast in order to light up the snowflakes.
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Mesmerizing timelapse (and long exposure video) from French photographer Stephane Vetter capturing the night sky using a Sigma 8 mm fisheye lens on the night of Nov 17, 2012 in Champ du Feu, Alsace, France.
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Stunning and gorgeous, these long exposures of fireworks make so evident the comparisons to flowers and sea creatures. David Johnson explains his technique over at Colossal:
The technique I used was a simple refocus during the long exposure. Each shot was about a second long, sometimes two. I’d start out of focus, and when I heard the explosion I would quickly refocus, so the little stems on these deep sea creature lookalikes would grow into a fine point. The shapes are quite bizarre, some of them I was pleasantly surprised with.
Capturing bodies in motion with long exposure photos so often leads to stunning imagery. This set is no different. I really like how it looks at both dancers, acrobats and athletes.
