Night Reflection 3.1

About this picture

Glancing up at the universe.

Here’s an unusual perspective we rarely take to create our pieces. Sometimes the elements of the scene dictate what we should do. It was getting late, we had shot for about an hour and were getting cold. The Milky Way was slowly rising but at least 2 hours away from being straight above our heads, so we decided to do one more spot before taking a break to warm ourselves up. It was quite a hike for Eric to climb up and down the big rock in between the series of pictures, but it was definitely worth it, as doing unusual things brings unusual results.

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About the Night Reflection Three series

This chapter is especially dear to us as for a long time we simply thought it would be impossible to capture the milky way with our light-painting technique within a single image. As we kept trying and learning, we finally got to a point where we refined our mastery enough to achieve these images. Now an integral part of our art, capturing the night sky and especially our galaxy in our light-painting creations is a good reason to stay out very late at night, looking at something that we are part of, enjoying nature’s spectacle during the Milky Way season. These moments are indeed very humbling and inspiring experiences that we aim to immortalize with our pieces.  

Just as every trace of light made by hand is unique and impossible to replicate, so is every night sky we capture. As we shape traces of light and partially reveal the beauty of our environment, we try to create a slightly altered perspective of reality where reflection is implied.