Sublime and Beautiful Sunday Playing with light
This post is for #SublimeSunday is inspired by 
For this post which I hope some may find one or two shots beautiful or sublime, but perhaps more may see them as weird and wonky, but even if I didn't get quite the shots I was hoping for and have for now given up on this idea, I did have fun and get some strange looks when taking these photos
Lets start with my favorite shot I got when trying for these in a few locations.
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As I said that is my favorite of this series, that came out somewhat like I was hoping for, catching the light trails of the vehicles lined up with one of the circle I was creating.
Now you may wonder how I was creating those circles, and I will get to that, but let me show you a failed shot that in a weird way I kind of love
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Now the shot above was a total failure in my planning as I was starting to spin the string I was holding with glow sticks on the end slipped out of my fingers and both of them went flying through the air, and I had to go and grab them and was just starting to spin when the 30 second exposure finished
creating these funky lines
Now I am curious which one of the first two shots do you prefer?
the one that went as planned, or the opps that went wrong but is still kind of cool one, or alternatively, option 3...
Your crazy give away the glow sticks and get back to normal photos
Ok this next shot shows how I did these shots, as you can see from the shadow my camera is setup on a tripod, and I click the button, walk out in front of the camera and start spinning the glow sticks which were tied onto the end of a piece of string.
I realized after this one I needed to set a 10 second timer before it started to take the photo as you can see the faint circles as I started spinning, and you can faintly see me, so can I count this as a selfie
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This next one again you can see the shadow of the tripod, and my legs were actually quite clear so I edited them out, but when I noticed on camera the car lights on the left of this image it gave me the idea to try for what I got in the first image an appearance of the car light trail passing through one of the circles.
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and for those who persevered to scroll down this far, here is another one I was fairly happy with how it came out
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This next one again shows what happens if you don't set a timer before the camera starts taking the photo, more as a tip if anyone else wants to try this sometime.
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in this next one even if not happy how the circles of the glow sticks came out, I do like the building across the water is in one of the circles.
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Now this last one is a crazy idea that came to mind, probably because I had been watching the Olympic games recently, and I thought if I stood in the right spots and did circles I could make something close to the 5 Circles of the Olympic symbol.
Why then may you ask are there only three circles.
Well thats because I spun them in the wrong place either two high and they didn't appear well in the sky or I misjudged placement.
Pretty sad really I tried a couple of mornings to do this particular idea, going to a spot setting up the camera and tripod and then taking 5 long exposures spinning a circle for each one
I probably spent an hour or two on this idea, and sadly this image is the best I got.
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So although I had fun doing these shots, I have had that fun and will get back to normal photos again for future posts.
that said In the past I did Steel wool spinning which was fun but you really need another person with you to do that, but one day I will try it again
And that’s all folks
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