Firstly a piece incorporating the very interesting windmills of "Cave Urban". In this frame Suren is the very accommodating (and with very tired arms and legs from having to stand near motionless for 20 minutes
) silhouette with fire energy in his hands, I'm doing the green and blue EL wire on the ground and Gerry was going to do the torchlight on the bamboo poles... but.. well, time (and the exposure - all six miniutes) ran out before we had the chance - luckily ambient from the reflected light pollution off the clouds, the full moon and other people lighting was easily enough for our purposesGatekeeper Z
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 360.00 sec at f/11, ISO 100
A Sculpture by Zhang Yangen titled "Seas Nest" - however my version I've called
Lunar Egg
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 35 mm, 160.00 sec at f/9, ISO 100
Incorporating the moon (yes I know it looks like the sun, but trust me - it's the almost full moon - and it's very very bright) into the shot was tricky since it would have nuked the exposure. I had Cameron stand at the back of the egg in front of the opening where the moon is, shielding the moon from camera view for most of the exposure, only moving near the very end to expose the moon. I did the greeny/blue EL wire everywhere on the ground... and went a bit overboard
and Suren did the LED torch light from left and right sides.I actually like Gerry's version better - what is interesting however is that we didn't take ours at the same time - in fact we took them completely independently of each other and neither knew that the other had shot this at all - still resulting in a somewhat similar composition/theme/etc...
Finally another incorporating the excellent "Mirador" dome by Rachel Couper & Ivana Kuzmanovska
Fire Bug
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 107 sec at f/9, ISO 100
