Light traces with photography
This photograph was made with a sparkler for a boys camp in Maine and it was used on their annual cover and as a post card. It never brought in new photography work of the same type, but received many compliments anyway. It’s just a trick that can be exploited by the medium. I never photographed a sparkler trail for any other client, but created other photographs that helped businesses sell services and products either by making technical or conceptual photographs or by presenting the product artistically.
I will tell anyone that photography is merely a selection of reality, a moment in time, and there is no truth beyond the image on the computer monitor or on paper. Photography can tell the truth, but this truth is always framed by the restrictions of the medium and the photographer and in rare photographs this truth ends up being the feeling we are reminded of by seeing.