Shards and Phractures

Cool looking reflective building in downtown Phoenix. -=ad=-

...he kept watching my camera, and then ate the button off of a jacket when we got too close... -=ad=-

Double-ended fire staff. -=ad=-

Mantises (Manti?) are so much fun to shoot...and it definitely helps to have a not-so-squamish assistant, too. -=ad=-

...very soon now, I'll be uploading pictures from my new camera...*grin* -=ad=-

Curved building in downtown Phoenix. -=ad=-

Petrified Forest, Arizona. -=ad=-

...what do you get when you cross a camera with a pool table...? Lots of motion blur! -=ad=-

...it may look like mid-morning, but this was actually taken at least a half hour after sunset, on a breezy day. The extra-long exposure smoothed out the ripples in the water, and brought back the reflection. Not as rich or vibrant as the London Bridge shot, but I still like how it turned out. -=ad=-

...and we move from fire in the hands to fire in the sky... I actually shot this out of a car window, because I loved the texture in the clouds. But when I pulled it from the camera, it didn't look like I remembered...so, I used Photoshop to darken it until it looked like I remembered. -=ad=-

...gotta love the swirls and shapes of a fire-spinner pic... -=ad=-

...used Photoshop to bring out the color and sharpen a bit. This was part of a fire-spinning performance by the Wizards of AZ, a troupe in Phoenix. -=ad=-