The Officer

The Officer, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

Me, Phil and Fran took a trip to to the digger graveyard. Haven't bin in a few months and it was really starry so re-shot a few things but with a star trail. My camera was acting a bit weird at the start of the night because somehow my camera had managed to change shooting styles in my bag so everything was 3 stops darker.

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Light Painting Photography - 18 of the Worlds Best Artists

Light Painting Photography - 18 of the Worlds Best Artists, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

I love it when it find stuff like this floating around the internet.

Light Painting Photography - 18 of the Worlds Best Artists

If you can't view it large here is what the text says.

"Light Painting Photography has been around since 1914 when Frank Gilbreth first use the form to study the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. Light painting photography is also known as light painting, light drawing, light writing, light graffiti, light art, light art performance photography, LAPP, camera painting, and kinetic photography. All of these names are, in one form or another, long exposure photography. In Light Painting Photography the artist is leaving the shutter of the camera open for an extended period of time and using various lights to create color and design within the frame. Shutter speeds for light paintings can vary anywhere from 5 seconds up to 5 hours or more. To be a true light painting photograph the image must be created in one single frame without any post production manipulation whatsoever, a.k.a. NO PHOTOSHOP. Proper light painting photographs are known as SOOC or straight out of camera. This is a list of 18 of the worlds best light painting photographers."

"Chris Benbow: Chris, a.k.a. Nocturne, has coined his own term for his style of light painting photography its called noctography. Chris’s style is influenced by one of his favorite light painters Troy Pavia."

The list also includes:

Eric Staller
Dean Chamberlain
Vicki DaSilva
Troy Paiva
Patrick Rochon
Aurora Crowley
LAPP-PRO
Lichtfaktor
Chanette Manso
Dana Maltby
Jason D. Page
Janne Parviainen
Trevor Williams
Michael Bosanko
Guilhem Nicolas
Jake Saari
Jeremy Jackson

All of these people are my friends and are amazing artists, we're more like family, related but seperated at birth, we all have this connection and that connection is light painting, It brings is together as a cummunty.

Everyone on this list is a huge inspiration to me and hopefully one day we'll all get to shoot together.

Untill then keep on Lighting Up The Darkness my friends.

If you would like to see the other work here is the website I found this on - www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/04/light-painting-photograp...

www.lightpaintingphotography.com

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No Sledging!

No Sledging!, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

Does as it says on the tin, NO SLEDGING! I was saying to Phil if you were the farmer and you woke up one morning when it had snowed and your feild was full of idiots sledging you'd be pretty annoyed. haha

We took ages composing this trying to get it right, in the end we ended up sitting in the road.

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Blades of glory

Blades of glory, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

I love this place

A4

A4, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

Insurance Scam

Insurance Scam, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

As it was full moon I stayed local again and went to this house i've been meaning to go to for a while now.

Apparently an insurance scam gone wrong, a guy burnt down his own house for the insurance and they wouldn't pay out.

Now I believe it has been sold off at auction, bought by a developer, it will be knocked down and a few new houses to be built in its place, such a shame people get greedy.

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Stairway to nothing

Stairway to nothing, a photo by [Nocturne] on Flickr.

Stayed local the other night and I'm happy with this.