{"id":15223,"date":"2017-04-30T22:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=15223"},"modified":"2022-01-06T00:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T05:26:58","slug":"2021-heavy-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=15223","title":{"rendered":"2021 &#8211; The Light At The End Of The&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date &#8211; this was published on December 30, 2021)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15224\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1-20-076-1975-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"750\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Light &#8211; where would we be without it? For one thing, I\u2019d be out of a job and since there would have been no reason for eyes to evolve, we\u2019d all be eyeless mole people living in the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">No thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Seeing things is great, but photographing things as they\u2019re never seen in nature is a lot more fun (\u201cWhut the hell IS that thang?\u201d) and creatively inspiring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">And you can do it with practically nothing. In the above picture, I\u2019m sitting in my car in 1975 on a dark street in Bergenfield, NJ, waiting for someone to wrap up a visit to someone else. There\u2019s NOTHING to see except darkness\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and a street light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Here\u2019s the story from my site:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">What could this possibly be? Simplicity from boredom is a good guess, so here&#8217;s the story:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24px;\">One night, someone asked me to drive him to someone else&#8217;s apartment where he would &#8216;only be a minute&#8217;. I didn&#8217;t like his friend, so I waited in the car. &#8216;A minute&#8217; became 15, then 30. I had my camera with me, but could see nothing to shoot but a streetlight, so I put the star filter on the lens and took the top &#8216;+&#8217;. I then forwarded to the next shot without advancing the film, so I could double-expose the same frame of film.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24px;\">I then guessed where that first &#8216;+&#8217; was in the viewfinder and lined up the second &#8216;+&#8217; where I thought the 2 vertical components would meet and took the second exposure. Of course, I would have no way of knowing if I was successful or not until it was developed, so &#8211; hey, why not go for 3?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24px;\">I then gave the star filter 1\/8 of a turn to make the &#8216;+&#8217; an &#8216;x&#8217;, forwarded without advancing the film again, and lined it up where I thought the second &#8216;+&#8217; would bisect the new &#8216;x&#8217;, fired away, and wound up with a lucky triple-exposure of guesswork from a simple street light.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24px;\">Don&#8217;t believe it? You can see the same telephone wire to the right of the light in each exposure.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">You have to be REALLY bored to come up with something like that, but I like the result, so I kept experimenting\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026and not always with success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">I started taking pictures while I was driving at night in places where there were lights, like the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel and midtown Manhattan:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15228\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2-1981-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2-1981-WM-min.jpg 876w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2-1981-WM-min-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15229\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3-1988-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3-1988-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3-1988-WM-min-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15230\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4-1989-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4-1989-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4-1989-WM-min-768x567.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Ehh &#8211; not so hot\u2026\u2026\u2026..motion worked against me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">So I decided to try \u201cwaste shots\u201d at the end of film rolls, using longer exposures to let motion work to my advantage &#8211; hopefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Here\u2019s Waste Shot #1 and my site\u2019s story:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15231\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-20-058-Waste-of-time-February-1980-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-20-058-Waste-of-time-February-1980-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-20-058-Waste-of-time-February-1980-WM-min-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Lexington Ave., Clifton, NJ 1980<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Why is this cool-looking shot a &#8216;waste&#8217;?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">I had just finished shooting a show at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic. After a show, I usually went to the Kodak plant in Fair Lawn, NJ to drop off my film in the night box before I went home.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">If there are still a couple of shots left on a roll in my camera after the show, I hate to not use them, so I &#8216;waste&#8217; them by taking strange open-shutter shots as I&#8217;m driving to Kodak.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">In this one, I was stopped at a red light, holding the camera on the dashboard. Just before the light turned green, I opened the shutter.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">The red lights are the brake lights of the car in front of me. The white lights are the headlights of the car in the opposite lane. When the light turned green, he took off and you can see his headlights driving by me.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">In the greenish lights on the left, the vertical word &#8216;DINER&#8217; can be made out. This is the Lexington Diner.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">This shot is my favorite waste of time.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Kinda cool\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.let\u2019s try something different:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15233\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-20-073-on-Rt-4-Paramus-NJ-early-1980s-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-20-073-on-Rt-4-Paramus-NJ-early-1980s-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-20-073-on-Rt-4-Paramus-NJ-early-1980s-WM-min-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Route 4 West, Paramus, NJ 198? (Kodak date stamp too faint)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">(My second-favorite waste of time). This one had a bit more danger involved. Instead of holding the camera on the dashboard while the shutter was open, I held it out the window, aiming at the store and highway lights on the eastbound side and turning my arm in the semi-circular pattern seen in the photo, while driving in the fast lane (at the posted 50mph limit, of course).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24px;\">The wind almost tore both the camera out of my hand and my arm off. I also stood to lose all the good shots (most of what was in the camera) from whatever show I just shot.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24px;\">What a waste that would have been and what a waste this is.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Here are a couple of old stills. Back to a street light\u2026\u2026\u2026.this is an old one I saw in Hawthorne, NJ that\u2019s nicely iced:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15234\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/7-21-054-Hawthorne-NJ-1979-or-1980-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/7-21-054-Hawthorne-NJ-1979-or-1980-WM-min.jpg 796w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/7-21-054-Hawthorne-NJ-1979-or-1980-WM-min-768x724.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Also in Hawthorne, I shot an ex in 1980 playing with a sparkler while jumping in the air:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15235\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8-1980-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"750\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">I think I shot these lights at the Meadowlands Race Track:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15236\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/9-1920-1980-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/9-1920-1980-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/9-1920-1980-WM-min-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Not far away from there on Rt 17 in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, was a bowling establishment called Eclipse Lanes. In 1982, I took a longish, hand-held exposure of their \u201cEclipse\u201d sign (with bowling pin) and &#8211; because trying to hold it steady for the entire exposure would probably result in a shaky picture &#8211; I instead immediately moved the camera downward, so the lights would streak upward on film, which looks more interesting than a shaky, unsharp picture (at least I hope it does):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15237\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/10-1982-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"750\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">In 1998, I shot the moon seemingly about to drop out of a hole in the sky, while it reflects on the Atlantic Ocean at Emerald Isle, North Carolina:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15238\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/11-No.-22-August-1998-E.I.-NC-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"750\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">One thing I really enjoy shooting are images where the lights of moving vehicles \u201cpaint\u201d on the film during long exposures (and mostly shot from my living room).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Fire engines &#8211; with all their lights &#8211; are great for that. In this 2007 shot, a fire engine was parked in the lot below my window (bottom of pic) and then suddenly exited (see the \u201cbumpiness\u201d in the lights as it hits the street), going the wrong way up a one-way street (a quicker way back to the firehouse). This was published in (local paper) The Record:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15239\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/12-May-2007-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"750\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Same street, but going in the correct direction:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15240\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/13-IMG_0360-10-30-11-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/13-IMG_0360-10-30-11-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/13-IMG_0360-10-30-11-WM-min-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">I\u2019m standing across the street from my building as another fire engine whizzes past the church next door:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15241\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/14-IMG_7598-8-9-11-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/14-IMG_7598-8-9-11-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/14-IMG_7598-8-9-11-WM-min-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Since cars are more plentiful than fire engines, I get plenty of practice with them -ESPECIALLY on Christmas Eve (?) Figure it out: I have churches that hold 8pm Christmas Eve services on either side of me and a big municipal lot below me right between both churches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">In this shot, cars that find no open spaces in the church lot to my left, cross the street to park in the municipal lot:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15242\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15-IMG_8554-12-24-17-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15-IMG_8554-12-24-17-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15-IMG_8554-12-24-17-WM-min-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">In these two shots &#8211; taken on different Christmas Eves &#8211; the caption on the first one tells you what the photographic attraction is when they go around corners in the lot:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15243\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/16-IMG_8770-12-24-15-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/16-IMG_8770-12-24-15-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/16-IMG_8770-12-24-15-WM-min-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15244\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17-IMG_0340-12-24-13-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"640\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">But the absolute king of all these Christmas Eve parking lot shots is one I took the very first December 24 that I tried doing this. Mind you &#8211; this first one is a 2017 makeover of the original, which is right below the story (too bad I didn\u2019t have PhotoShop in 1992):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15247\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/18-20-067-12-24-92-1-27-17-version-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/18-20-067-12-24-92-1-27-17-version-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/18-20-067-12-24-92-1-27-17-version-WM-min-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>This is one of my favorite pictures. My living room picture window faces a big municipal parking lot behind my building. Is there anything more boring than a picture of a parking lot? Yes! \u2013 taking that picture at night.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I have a Christmas Eve ritual unlike anyone else\u2019s. On either side of my building is a church and both of them hold Christmas Eve services that begin at 8pm. Between 7:30 and 8, lots of cars pull into the central lot to park on the half that\u2019s closest to their church.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>Meanwhile, I\u2019m 7 floors above them with my camera on a shortened tripod that\u2019s perched on the window\u2019s wide shelf. The camera\u2019s shutter speed is maxed out at 30 seconds.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>Did you ever see pictures of highways taken at night and all you see are solid streaks of red taillights or white headlights? Those are time exposures in which moving lights basically \u201cpaint\u201d<\/em><em>\u009d<\/em><em> on the film while the shutter is open. That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m doing here.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>However, unlike a highway with a steady stream of cars and their lights, this is a lot more difficult because these cars are entering the lot sporadically and I have no idea where they\u2019re going to park. When one car pulls in, I have to hit the shutter as soon as it does, because I\u2019m hoping that it goes the length of the lot and turns one way or the other to park one lane closer to their church within those 30 seconds. That means that I\u2019ll have a good shot in which white headlights turn into red taillights.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>If the car parks right away in the central lane, I\u2019ll have a short, boring, white light path.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>This guesswork goes on fairly intensively for a half-hour and if I shot a full roll of 36, I\u2019d be lucky to have 3 really good ones.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>1992 was the first year I tried it and, although I\u2019ve continued every year since, this shot from that initial year is by far the best I\u2019ve ever gotten: two cars pulled in almost back-to-front, traversed the entire central lane and pulled into spaces in the opposite outer lanes (gotta love the semi-symmetry) \u2013 all within the 30 seconds and both providing nearly-perfect white-to red-transition (with some yellow sidelights connectivity).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>It has been suggested that the car being driven on the side street maybe belonged to an atheist, but it\u2019s clearly pulling into the parking lot. And what looks like a scratch in the upper left is actually light from the path of a plane that had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in NYC.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>And lest you think that I selectively hand-colored a black-and-white image to set off the car lights and the Peruvian restaurant in the background, take a look at the below pic. That\u2019s the original 1992 slide. It took me a LOT of hours to remove all the other color, but I finished it in January, 2017, so it\u2019s my 21st century makeover of my 20th century photo.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>BTW \u2013 if you look closely, you can see some light glare in the original that reminds me that I never even opened the window to shoot that night. And if you\u2019re wondering why the red taillights on the car on the right fade and then get brighter, the driver hit his brakes to park. It\u2019s a little less obvious in the car on the left.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>And if you look REALLY closely, you might find midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building along the horizon that was curved by the fisheye lens<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15248\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/19-20-067-12-24-92-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/19-20-067-12-24-92-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/19-20-067-12-24-92-WM-min-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Just <em>one<\/em> more moving car lights pic and long, boring story &#8211; this one from 2007:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15249\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20-June-2007-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20-June-2007-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20-June-2007-WM-min-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>This was probably the most experimental, time-consuming and slightly dangerous moving-lights shot I came up with during my short burst of semi-creativity (and will take the longest for me to cram in all the detail here \u2013 most of which will only be relevant to those familiar with the location), so here goes:<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I was driving eastbound on Route 4 in Paramus, NJ, during daylight hours and right after I went under the Garden State Parkway overpass, I noticed a giant Ferris wheel to my right in the parking lot of the Garden State Plaza mall \u2013 a carnival was being set up.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I thought that it might be an interesting shot if I took it at night from the higher Garden State Parkway: it would include the carnival and Ferris wheel lights and all the moving car lights in both directions on Route 4.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>So I picked a night, parked some distance from the Parkway, and lugged my equipment up the hill to the roadway, which turned out to be partially blocking my view of the scene I wanted. There was no other way up the hill on the other side of the roadway, so I climbed back down and trekked up Route 4\u2019s westbound lane until I was directly across the highway from the carnival.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>There was no room to back up\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.only just enough room to set up the tripod and steady it against the guardrail, which you can see in the bottom right. You can also see how close the speeding cars were.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>The curvature of their lights is due to the fisheye lens, which I needed to get everything else into the frame, including the highway signs (note Garden State Parkway logo in upper right), the Parkway overpass, the white headlights of cars coming down a Parkway exit ramp to head east, and, of course, the carnival.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>The higher red vehicle lights are probably from a truck or bus.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I was VERY happy with the outcome \u2013 especially given the semi-dangerous (and LOUD) situation, but it wasn\u2019t terribly unlike shooting an outrageous heavy metal concert.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">On a somewhat similar note, these two moving light shots are train-related, but don\u2019t show any trains. You\u2019ll have to read another long, boring story that <em>I<\/em> think is worth it (of COURSE you do, Bob):<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">(from 2007) <em>After my comparative photo malaise of the previous few years, I woke up and revived\/refined my love of capturing moving night lights \u2013 something I attribute to shooting fast-moving\/changing concert lighting for a couple of decades.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>The trigger? Washing the dishes in my kitchen sink one night.<\/em><em> (<\/em><em>what?<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>There\u2019s a commuter railroad line that\u2019s about 3 blocks away from home that I can see from the window above the sink. This night, I looked up when I heard a train\u2019s horn in the distance and saw the blinking lights of the two gates as they lowered to block traffic. This had to have happened in the spring before all the tree foliage came in \u2013 otherwise, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to see them.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>As you know, the gates straddle the road and start in an upright 12 o\u2019clock position. The left one goes from 12 o\u2019clock to 3 o\u2019clock as the right one goes from 12 to 9. The light on the tip of each gate does not blink, while the other two do.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>All of a sudden, I immediately pictured in my head exactly what those quarter arcs would look like on film in a time exposure. I had to try this out, but it would take a little research.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>The street I selected was a commercial street (more lights!) that was a block away from the one I saw from my kitchen. It\u2019s also where the train stops at a station. I looked up the train schedule for the time that would have the most trains in the shortest period, so I wouldn\u2019t have long waits between them.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I was trying to figure out when I would start the exposure before the gates started coming down. That was practically impossible, but then I realized that I could accomplish the same effect by starting the exposure on the other end \u2013 when the gates were opening after the train left.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>This was a lot easier to do because the rear of the stopped train was visible and I just needed to count the seconds between when the train started to move and when the gates started opening. Since the camera would be on a tripod, I had to add a couple of seconds to account for the camera\u2019s timer that I need to use in low light and maybe add a couple more seconds just to be sure.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>All of this added up to about 15 seconds. Since I was using a 30-second exposure, that would allow the now-moving cars\u2019 lights to paint on the film and add to the moving gates\u2019 lights paint job. That wouldn\u2019t have happened with closing gates.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>OK \u2013 I\u2019m now ready to try all this out live\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026and here comes a train.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>As soon as the gates went down, I ran out into the street and set up the already-camera\u2019d tripod on the center stripe of the road, frantically framed the scene to include where the gates\u2019 lights would be going, set the timer and rested my finger on the shutter button.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I noticed that the drivers in the stopped cars that were nearest to me were looking at me like I was nuts. Maybe, but we\u2019ll know for sure when the film gets developed.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>The train starts to leave the station, I start to count seconds and hit the shutter, which opens two seconds later. The gates are still down \u2013 good. Then they rise and cars start whizzing by me on both sides\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026IT FEELS LIKE IT\u2019S GONNA WORK!<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>And it did \u2013 perfectly. The only flaw was that one of the blinking lights on the left gate wasn\u2019t working. You can see the tracks and a bit of bumpiness in the cars\u2019 lightpaths as they cross the tracks.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15250\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/21-No.8-Anderson-St-Spring-2007-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/21-No.8-Anderson-St-Spring-2007-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/21-No.8-Anderson-St-Spring-2007-WM-min-768x562.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>This is <\/em><em>exactly<\/em><em> the picture that popped into my head while I was in the kitchen washing dishes. It\u2019s also a scene you\u2019ve encountered a million times in your life, but have never seen this happening this way right in front of you. <\/em><strong><em>THAT\u2019S<\/em><\/strong><em> what I love about these shots.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>Oooo\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I wanna do more.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Actually, I got something similar 4 years later from my roof. Mercifully, the story is quite short.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>This is the scene I saw in my mind from my kitchen sink in my 2007 post about waking up photographically. This is similar to the image I created back then:<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15251\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/22-IMG_1637-12-17-11-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/22-IMG_1637-12-17-11-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/22-IMG_1637-12-17-11-WM-min-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">For this final grouping &#8211; moving carnival rides&#8217; lights &#8211; I\u2019ll ditch whatever stories may be associated with these pix and just say that if you want to capture some REALLY cool shots, just go to a carnival with lots of rides&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.at night. Bring a tripod and do long exposures:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15252\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/23-IMG_9206-Leonia-2011-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"640\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15253\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/24-IMG_9231-Leonia-2011-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"640\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15254\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/25-IMG_3243-Holy-Trinity-carnival-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15255\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/26-IMG_7097-5-23-15-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"671\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15256\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/27-IMG_7101-5-23-15-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/27-IMG_7101-5-23-15-WM-min.jpg 999w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/27-IMG_7101-5-23-15-WM-min-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/27-IMG_7101-5-23-15-WM-min-904x587.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15257\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28-IMG_3243-Blowup-2011-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28-IMG_3243-Blowup-2011-WM-min.jpg 999w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28-IMG_3243-Blowup-2011-WM-min-768x376.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28-IMG_3243-Blowup-2011-WM-min-904x442.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15258\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/29-IMG_9236-Leonia-2011-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"537\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15259\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/30-IMG_3234-5-5-11-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/30-IMG_3234-5-5-11-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/30-IMG_3234-5-5-11-WM-min-768x617.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15260\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-No.25-June-2007-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-No.25-June-2007-WM-min.jpg 826w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-No.25-June-2007-WM-min-768x697.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15261\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/32-IMG_9235-Leonia-2011-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15262\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/33-IMG_3213-5-5-11-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"750\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15263\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/34-No.9-May-2007-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/34-No.9-May-2007-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/34-No.9-May-2007-WM-min-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15264\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/35-No.22-019-H.T.-Carnival-June-2001-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/35-No.22-019-H.T.-Carnival-June-2001-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/35-No.22-019-H.T.-Carnival-June-2001-WM-min-768x527.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15265\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/36-No.11-May-2007-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/36-No.11-May-2007-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/36-No.11-May-2007-WM-min-768x621.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Last-minute addition<\/strong> (thanks to a light bulb going off over my head just before I posted this):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20-050-November-1977-WM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20-050-November-1977-WM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20-050-November-1977-WM.jpg 500w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20-050-November-1977-WM-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Way back in 1977, I took this picture of the lighthouse in New Haven, CT. Although its light appears to be very bright at dusk, it\u2019s actually not on! <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">It\u2019s the sun and I shot it in late afternoon, stopping the camera down to make the light fit in its \u201ccontainer\u201d.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">As I wrote elsewhere: \u201cMaybe I\u2019m now starting to be creative instead of just observant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">By the way, I asked the New Haven Preservation Trust when was the last time this lighthouse&#8217;s beam shone: &#8220;1877&#8221; was the reply, meaning that exactly 100 years later, I may have been the only person to have shot it &#8220;lit&#8221; once again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">And on THAT self-congratulatory note, it\u2019s time to sign out (I\u2019m feeling a little <em>light<\/em>-headed), but I\u2019ll do it with &#8211; what else? &#8211; light:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15266\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/37-Yours-truly-1986-WM-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/37-Yours-truly-1986-WM-min.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/37-Yours-truly-1986-WM-min-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">(It\u2019s a tiny flashlight with a red plastic cap, camera on tripod, timer on, write your sig at the camera &#8211; in the dark, of course &#8211; and flip the result.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">This just in&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">VERY<\/span> LATE ADDITION!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">The below first comment of a remembrance means I forgot an important moving-lights shot that was entirely my own creation\u00a0 &#8211; sorry, E!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">The story:<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>These are my LONG-time friends, Frank and Elaine O\u2019Toole. I was trying out a new long-exposure-painting-on-film lighting effect I came up with that involved someone dressed completely in flat black \u2013 including ski mask \u2013 who was standing behind them and moving a handful of Christmas tree lights in a circular motion. Pretty technical, huh?<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><em>I had an upcoming rooftop session scheduled with Dee Snider\u2019s Widowmaker band and this was the test run\u2026\u2026\u2026and this came out MUCH better. I love this shot!<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4.1-18-096-FE-August-1992-WM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4335 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4.1-18-096-FE-August-1992-WM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4.1-18-096-FE-August-1992-WM.jpg 537w, https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4.1-18-096-FE-August-1992-WM-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">(see subsequent second comment)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">And lastly:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">And thanks for another year of putting up with whatever spills out of my head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Can somebody please clean up this messy brain-splat?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (ignore April 30, 2017 publish date &#8211; this was published on December 30, 2021) &nbsp; \u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &nbsp; Light &#8211; where would we be without it? For one thing, I\u2019d be out of a job and since there would have been no reason for eyes to evolve, we\u2019d all be eyeless mole people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15223"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15325,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions\/15325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}