Long exposure photography: light painting

I want to finish off this series on long-exposure photography with a post about light painting. It's got nothing to do with history, but I think it's really cool: how else can you draw in 3D?

Pablo Picasso did a series of light painting for Life magazine in 1950: if the gallery below doesn't work, then you can read the original article here.



Some other nice examples:







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