THE MAGICAL PATHS OF LIGHT NOW

Photography translates directly to light-drawing and when the light moves and the camera stays open, it draws beautiful pathways of light. We are sharing the beautiful works of 2 photographers who capture these in magical ways.

CALDER WILSON

Why not attach fireworks to drones and send them flying, just for show? It seemed like a good idea to photographer Calder Wilson. He uses long-exposure photography to pick up the light trails, with their sharp vibrant colors.

The fireworks images have been largely experimental for Wilson, with beautiful results. His drones fly around in looping, zig-zagging, and criss-crossing patterns, as light draws across the camera’s open aperture.

The luminous trails of these shimmering fireworks created incredible photographs that hardly needed any post-production processing.

Wilson also likes to capture the light paths that play out at music festivals. His photos of Electric Daisy Carnival, Camp Bisco, and his favorite, Coachella, are stunning. See them here.

TRISTAN O’TIERNEY

When emerging photographer Tristan O’Tierney connected with this concept, he began to consider light emitting objects, such as cars, trains, and flashlights, as his “paint brushes,” and an image sensor as his “canvas.”

O’Tierney sees long exposure images as if they contained ghosts… with remnants of things, once full of light, that are no longer there. The image retains the “memory” of previous existence.

O’Tierney got serious about photography recently, after retiring from his gig as co-founder, with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, of Square, the company that enables small businesses to charge credit cards via smartphones. 

O’Tierney’s long-exposure shots trace the pathways of moving objects. In one magnificent photo, for example, he puts his own spin on the classic image of speeding car headlights and tail lights. In another, he follows the gleaming stars as they move around a cactus in the desert.

“Every pixel tells a story – a transition through time,” explains O’Tierney. “Slow down your shutter and you can see not only where something was, but when.”

Read more about Beautiful Pathways, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including Baby, Tonight We’re So Beautiful Now, The Pathways to Beautiful Ideas Now and Wild Pathways to Beautiful Food Now.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Calder Wilson. Attached Fireworks.
2. Image: by Calder Wilson. Attached Fireworks.
3. Image: by Calder Wilson. Attached Fireworks.
4. Image: by Calder Wilson. Raining Lasers at Ultra 2014.
5. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Wedding Road.
6. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Magma.
7. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Pointing North.
8. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Chicago Bound.
9. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Upstate Trails.
10. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Road, Sea, Land and Air.
11. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Rollercoaster Ride.
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13. Image: by Tristan O’Tierney. Underground.