Night Reflection 3.9

About this picture

Moonless night, galactic beauty.

As much as we seek isolated locations where we can create our light-painting art, we can’t predict if and where light pollution from a not-so-near-by city will be visible during our long exposure shots. Sometimes we get surprised, like in this picture, and when it happens we adapt to these new constraints. Whenever possible, we like to see constraints as creative opportunities, which we try to welcome. From there, we see where it can lead us.

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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.