A Year in Pictures – Ring of Chinese Lanterns

[swan_tower]

This work by http://www.swantower.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

I think I’ve mentioned before that my father has been a total pusher for this photography habit of mine. When I was home the other Christmas, he took me to a Chinese lantern festival to learn the ins and outs of night photography. This was one of the first shots I took; it’s of the arch over the main part of the sight, and it was a beast to get, because the central lantern kept swaying in the wind. But I am nothing if not persistent, and in time I got the shot I wanted.

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[findabair.livejournal.com]

Really cool! I love night photography myself - long exposures are such fun :) Have you tried fireworks yet? Well worth a try - I've found it surprisingly easy to get decent results.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

So pretty!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I have one really good shot from the Biwako fireworks during Obon in Kyoto; that'll be posted later this year. Mainly the hard thing with those is getting the timing right.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I only have a few five-star shots from the festival, but the thing as a whole was beautiful.