I spent last evening with camera club friends doing abstracts at the Christmas light show at the Mormon temple in Kensington, MD. When you are taking long exposures, zooming, etc., you often don’t know what you’re going to get, especially at first. But, as you keep experimenting, you get a better sense of how to create various effects. Here are some of the “good ones.”

Warp Speed

Vortex

I’m calling this one “Not Jackson Pollock,” because it actually (and accidentally) looks a bit like some of his work.

Not sure what to call this one. Some of these don’t actually prefer to have names!

String theory