When I saw my first fire performance show in 2005 at our local regional burning man event, Interfuse, I knew I had to capture the moving flames in a photograph. It seemed obvious to me that I would need a tripod and a long exposure, and since I had a sturdy tripod with me, I made some pictures.

The second fire spinning picture I took, "Spinner", was a four second exposure at f8. The clarity of the flames and their pattern is very interesting, perhaps even more interesting than the blur of live action. But somehow the ghostly image of the person doing the spinning didn't seem to fit into the design as well as the impression of what I saw with my eyes.

When I saw my first fire performance show in 2005 at our local regional burning man event, Interfuse, I knew I had to capture the moving flames in a photograph. It seemed obvious to me that I would need a tripod and a long exposure, and since I had a sturdy tripod with me, I made some pictures.

The second fire spinning picture I took, "Spinner", was a four second exposure at f8. The clarity of the flames and their pattern is very interesting, perhaps even more interesting than the blur of live action. But somehow the ghostly image of the person doing the spinning didn't seem to fit into the design as well as the impression of what I saw with my eyes.