RoseFire Photography

As Frederick Douglass said, "It is not light that we need; but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the erhtquake." Fire orbs are a very beautiful thing to see, but it's just as tricky to photograph. There are alot of things that can go wrong when using fire, especially fire swinging on a rope, as the subject in the photograph is using. I took this photo on night on the beach when my one friend invited me and a few other people to experiment with the idea of photographing fire. The fire was created by using oxidized steal wool inside a almost kitchen whisk like container. The steal wool was then set on fire and we had to swing the 'kitchen whisk', attached to a piece of rope, in a circular motion. I had to set my camera up on a rock, because I didn't have my tripod with me at the time, on a slow shutter speed to be able to capture the fire orb. Although I didn't manage to capture a perfect fire orb, it was s...

  As Dorothea Lange said, "Photography taakes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." This photo was taken in the old city of Venezia in 2019 while I was waiting for the the boat that was going to take me back to my hotel room, the Seagull was sitting on one of the wooden posts holding the bridge to the dock together. It sat there for about 5 minutes entertaining all the people waiting on the dock by fluttering its wings and doing almost acrobating actions. It would fly off and the land a few seconds later doing tricks in the air, it did this 4 times just enjoying itself. This photo is a perfect example of the quote that I used at the beginning of this post, the bird will always be frozen in time in this photo in its take off pose, therefore "altering its life".