About this limited edition photograph:

The light painted photograph “This Too Shall Pass” was created on the Dug Road/Trout Run Trail in Decorah, Iowa.

The beautiful bronze sculpture, Walking with Birds, was created by Minneapolis based sculptor- Douglas Freeman.

To create this light painted photograph I placed my Canon T3i camera on a tripod and I used a long exposure of 170 seconds. I created the faux fire effect by standing behind the sculpture and waving a red LED glow stick around the perimeter of the sculpture. Fast and random vertical whipping motions allowed me to create the appearance of flames. The first hundred or so attempts did not look anything like fire, but persistence paid off and eventually I had achieved the look that I was after. No sculptures were harmed in the making of this photograph 😉

This photograph came off my camera as-is, and involved zero post-processing or Photoshop.

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