Timing is everything when working with fire, whether taking pictures of it or playing with it yourself. Lighting the bonfire by blowing fire at it, one up and one down, is hot work. It's also dangerous. Please don't try the fire tricks you see in these photos without training and a safety person standing by.

Here the blur of the person leaning into to the fire adds to the picture, but this kind of blurring does not always work. The more expensive DSLR cameras will let you make hundred of exposures and usually you can find a few that work. I prefer to work on developing a sense of timing, trying to fire off the shutter, taking account the delay, to catch what I want to. Mostly because going through hundreds of images looking for the happy accident is a lot of work.

Timing is everything when working with fire, whether taking pictures of it or playing with it yourself. Lighting the bonfire by blowing fire at it, one up and one down, is hot work. It's also dangerous. Please don't try the fire tricks you see in these photos without training and a safety person standing by.

Here the blur of the person leaning into to the fire adds to the picture, but this kind of blurring does not always work. The more expensive DSLR cameras will let you make hundred of exposures and usually you can find a few that work. I prefer to work on developing a sense of timing, trying to fire off the shutter, taking account the delay, to catch what I want to. Mostly because going through hundreds of images looking for the happy accident is a lot of work.