The awesome neon waterfalls are part of an ongoing series entitled Neon Luminance, a collaboration between Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard at From the Lenz.

“The duo dropped high-powered Cyalume glow sticks in a variety of colors into various waterfalls in Northern California and then made exposures varying from 30 seconds to 7 minutes to capture the submerged trails of light as the sticks moved through the current. To accomplish some of the more complicated shots they strung several sticks together at once to create different patterns of illumination. For those of you concerned about pollution, the sticks (which are buoyant) were never opened and were collected at the end of each exposure, thus no toxic goo was mixed into the water.”

Click here to view more images from this beautiful project.

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Four awesome examples of painting with light: Skateboarder by Andy Hemingway, Batman On Fire by Mina Mikhael, Angel Wings By Tom Paton, and Kundalini Bonfire by Dennis Calvert.

Visit gencept to see even more fantastic light painting photos.

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These awesome photos of people playing with fire were shot by French artist Tom Lacoste. Tom is a self-taught photographer currently attending the Bordeaux Circus School who takes photos like these purely for the fun of it. 

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We’ve seen all sorts of wonderful examples of creative people playing with light and long-exposure photography, but there is something extra special about these images. They might look like they were taken yesterday, but they were actually created by artist Eric Staller in New York during the 1970s. Eric used a 35mm Nikon camera, Christmas lights, and 4th of July sparklers to produce these awesome photographs.

“By day, Staller would walk around New York, studying the locations he felt would “articulate the particular choreography or architecture of light” that he wanted to express. At night, he would carefully position his camera on a tripod and, with the lens open for several minutes, he would purposefully move about urban spaces; outlining cars, streets and stairways and even forming magical-looking tunnels brought to life through his imagination.”

Eric Staller’s remarkable photos received a great deal of attention and were exhibited worldwide as Light Drawings, 1976-1980. He told My Modern Metropolis, “Even the most technical people in the photography world were mystified about how these photos were made.”

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Check out Steven E. Schubert’s awesome steel wool photography! 

Living in Indianapolis, Indiana, Shubert says that he has “an ample supply of abandoned industrial spaces” which inspired him “to find an art form that is adapted to this context.”

When asked how these shots were done, Shubert even gave us an inside look at his process:

“The technique is really low tech, I take steel wool, must be a 0 to 0000 grade fineness, and load it into a suet cage. This is a cage used to hold bird food or fat mixture, you can buy at any hardware store,” he says. “This is attached to a steel cable at about arm’s length. The wool can be ignited by touching a 9-volt battery to it. Once it’s lit, start spinning and have someone press the shutter release. The shots were taken on a Lumix GF1; kit zoom lens, 6-8 second exposures at f/5-6. A tripod is a must, as is a helper!”

Visit My Modern Metropolis to see more of Steven’s photos!