Lightmotif - Now With Half The Calories Of Regular Motif

I've wanted to do this post for a long time. It starts out a bit silly, but (I think) it gets really cool towards the end. These are ambient light time exposures of some of my neon, laser and other light-emitting toys. Above - there are no batteries in that clock, so it's ALWAYS 5:00.

I'm sure you can find these all over the place, but my palm tree lights are special. I picked them up in the midst of a tourist spending frenzy at the Key West Winery shop in 2002.

Soon after that, along came this neon silliness. Puts a nice glow in the beach room.

Himalayan salt crystal - a warm glow, plus millions of yummy, health-restoring ions!

Nice Moai. Good boy. (pat pat pat)

I thought this lamp would be the easiest to shoot, but it turned out to be the hardest. Iridescent clear plastic bits, illuminated from below and floating freely. meh. Hard to capture, but...

Leave the shutter open for 5 seconds, and look what happens! Reminds me of the opening credits (or was it closing?) of the live-action "Ultraman" TV show from Japan. But then, I'm old like that.

Now for the real fun - laser stars! They make your ceiling look like this.

Crank up the blue clouds and leave the lens open a little longer, and they do this.

Turn off the blue and open the shutter for 10 seconds, and they turn into spinny green laser spirographic awesomeness.

No words... Should have sent a poet... No... Words...

FUTURAMA!
(in color)

Hey - get out of the shot, human!

Okay. Back to reality. I gotta do some more of this stuff, someday...