My friend Brent has been passionate about light painting for a long time, and although we have been out at night countless times to do just that, it was only recently since I added a few of his tricks to my modest repertoire of light painting tools.

The below shot has been taken during the annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition.
Unfortunately it comes with a truckload of tourists. Serious shooting can only be considered at night.
The more serious photography crowd has realized that and I am delighted to see light painting to be used more and more during my nightly excursions.
Pushing the limits of photography is what drives us all!

Processing:

I light painted this sculpture with blue, red and clear cellophane. As well as lighting up the rock in the background to give some depth to the image.
This resulted in a huge file size in photoshop due to all the layers but I recently upgraded to 6GB RAM, so luckily that was no issue.

That’s right, it is high time to update my blog again. I was mostly without internet on my tours through Europe, the US and the Bahamas.
I have shot 6000 images on this trip and there is a lot to process. I will return home very soon and will report on my adventures with lots of photos as well so stay tuned.
Here is a quick one from Times Square (where 7th Ave meets Broadway) to keep you going

Ok gotta run catch a plane.
Talk soon.