Light Paint

A tumblog dedicated to long exposure photography. Please check out contributor's blogs as well Contributors: // ronnie.bruce. // // Kari-shma // // Amyyy // // leeshiebean // // borgomani //

[kari-shma]

Lights… Camera… Toronto! (by tomms)

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Wino Forever

[2headedsnake]

New light paintings by Darren Pearson

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Grand Canyon Star Trails

[llbwwb]

Trails Galore (by mwhcvt)

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spinning 轉轉

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Bay Bridge Sunset, San Francisco | California (by Jon Bauer)

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Brooklyn bridge at night | New York (by Jonatan Martin)

[orientaltiger]

Long exposure plane light trails by Kevin Cooley

[llbwwb]

Trails Galore (by mwhcvt)

[nickbilton-blog]

From last month with Bijan and EveryDayDude down by the train tracks.

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singlespeed (by cembayir_photography)

[photojojo]

Light painting doesn’t get much better than these magical photos by Simon Berger.

BONUS! Check out our DIY guide to light painting with steel wool. 

Some of the Best Steel Wool Light Painting We’ve Seen

via Notcot

[nevver]

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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“This photo of the Earth from space show light trails made by cities, star trails from the cosmos and even hundreds of thunderstorms lighting up the atmosphere. NASA astronaut Don Pettit shot this from the International Space Station orbiting 240 miles above the planet.”

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Teimareh Petroglyphs and Star Trails

Engraved in rock, these ancient petroglyphs are abundant in the Teimareh valley, located in the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. They likely tell a tale of hunters and animals found in the middle eastern valley 6,000 years ago or more, etched by artists in a prehistoric age. In the night sky above are star trails etched by the rotation of planet Earth during the long composite exposure made with a modern digital camera. On the left, the center of the star trail arcs is the North Celestial Pole (NCP), the extension of Earth’s axis into space. Polaris, the North Star, leaves the bright, short, stubby trail closest to the NCP. But when these petroglyphs were carved, Polaris would have made a long arc through the night. Since the Earth’s rotation axis precesses like a wobbling top, 6,000 years ago the NCP was near the border of the constellations Draco and Ursa Major, some 30 degrees from its current location in planet Earth’s sky.