Candy cane light

Took a new route last night while on our walk, and ended up on a stretch of road with a few Christmas decorations.  I had been playing around with lights and camera motion lately, and aimed to fill the frame with the shapes.  These experiments are much more entertaining to me than just photographing the lights as is.  I like the way these came out with the spirals, hearts, squiggles, and horizontals.

Close Encounters

Cue Richard Dreyfuss and the famous 5 note melody.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - The Conversation

Painting with the moonlight...

While out walking and observing my shaky images of the full moon, I decided to move my camera intentionally to create an image. After many attempts and tries at home, I'm happy to share my heart created with moonlight. I moved my camera with an open aperture to make the heart. Not easy at all.

My other attempts.  Here are 6 frames collaged.  You can see that it took time to learn how to keep the moon light in the camera frame.  The smallest movements of the camera, in the inverse direction, created the heart shape. 

I'd like to learn how to write the word "Moon".  Yah, I tried, but failed.  It really is difficult but good brain work.

Moon play

 

I stepped outside around 11:30 with my dog and looked up to see low lying clouds floating over the tree tops filtering the moon light.  It looked like I could touch them, and I loved the play of light, wind, and clouds as they passed by to my right toward the west.   Sometimes a halo orange/sepia formed and other times the faint appearance of the spectrum.   After laying on the ground, waiting, watching, shooting, and enjoying,  I was able to nearly capture the "night rainbow" of my experience.

Rooftop shoot with Shane

2/25/11:  This blog is already leading somewhere.  In thinking about this photo the other night, I was prompted to look for Shane.  I found him on Facebook, and as it ends up, the photo appeared in his set of images.  I'm very happy to reconnect with him, know that he's doing well, and find out that he's a photographer.

I took this photo of him for a photo/darkroom class assignment in college.  It was a long exposure shot, he says 30 seconds, and I remember being so pleased with the image during processing and printing.  I also remember how cool it was to be up on top of that parking deck playing photographer.  Freedom, cameras, and a good friend make for an excellent creative mix..

3.19.11
Shane sent me the other photo taken that night. I remember this one, too, and being amazed by the fact that the film recorded both Shane and the window reflections because he had moved.