I have started participating in a monthly photography blog circle, where we have a new topic each month and share posts with each other. I'm hoping this will help me creatively branch out from what I normally always do (portraiture) and have some fun in the meantime!

This month's genre was night photography. I took this loosely to mean anything with low-light conditions. ;-)

First up is from an engagement shoot a couple weeks ago. Emma wanted downtown at night and I was excited because it worked with the theme perfectly! Sometimes I love the control of some good off-camera flash. :)

I realize that I took this image well over a month ago, but alas, I wasn't able to recreate any fire images like this one from the Magic Valley Camera Club workshop with Travis Gadsby. But the pyro in me is dying to play with fire again!

This was handheld from a CSI Game. I kind of feel like we're going warp speed.

And lastly, I played with some light painting. I started with some simple words/phrases...


...And then decided this was too appropriate to not give it an attempt or two!... Or eleven, but who's counting?