Flickr Friday – #003

With the amount of photos online these days it’s often hard to have a wow moment, because you’ve that many wow moments before, you can become desensitised to truely amazing photos. However this night picture made with light painting techniques really stood out amoungst the crowd.

Silver Streak – By Steve Coleman (November 2006)

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I admire any form of light painting because it’s just so hard to do. You have to work backwards when writing letters or drawing shapes and there’s always the danger that 60 second exposure is too bright, of course taking another shot takes flipping ages, but I feel the results produce some of the most amazing photography. I love the way the photographer has almost become a graffiti artist here, airbrushing colour into the tracks and bridge and well almost everything really. The silver streak in the middle I assume to be a passing train, but I’m never sure if this line is disused or not and that the light as been put in artificially, it does seem too straight to be fabricated, so I do feel like a train passed through.

It’s an exciting photograph that I’d never really have chance to recreate, but it certainly inspires me to keep going in the winter when the time is right to paint with light.

Posted on Friday, August 27th, 2010