A few weeks ago, I went out to get some wood for our wood stove. I took a flashlight with me, and after a few paces in the sub-zero weather, I realized that I could see my breath vaporizing and swirling in front of me through the beam of the flashlight. I thought about what a cool photo it might be if I could capture motion of these tiny water molecules… which I tried a few minutes later. Turns out, it’s tough to photograph your own breath while holding a flashlight and a camera. ;) I ended up bringing a pot of boiling water outside, set the flash light on the woodpile above the water, and made some pictures. These remind me a bit of a starling murmation…
That’s pretty cool (in both senses…).
I keep a flashlight in my trunk for no other purpose than photography (so far, I haven’t used it for anything else).
Flashlight and duc tape (or is it “duck”?) = the greatest inventions of our era.