About this limited edition photograph:

The light painted photograph “Discovery Lies Beneath” was created at abandoned bridge abutments on Ten Mile Creek on Happy Hollow Road in Winneshiek County, Iowa.

To create this light painted photograph I placed my Canon T3i camera on a tripod and I used a long exposure of 144 seconds. I used a long sparkler firework to trace out each mortar line by hand. This sparkler provided all of the illumination in the photograph, and created an interesting reflection on the stream below. 

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

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