Early works and experiments: Light Drawings

Due to the response and questions raised from the previous blog, I have decided to show some of the original explorations and ideas behind the developement of these works.
I hope the series of images above go somewhere in explaning the nature of creating these works, namely I am using light and movement alongside a slow exposure shot, usually about 5 or 6 seconds. Occasionally it is the light that is in movement, but usually it is the camera that is moved by the act of drawing.
I do not use post-production techniques or softwear to alter the image once the drawing has been shot, not because I am against it but because I see these things as more closely related to painting. In fact some of the best work I have seen on this site incorporates elements of post-production and I consider bedavid and worldthrumylens to be some of the greatest artists I have so far come across here. Occasionally, I find it neccessary to crop a shot, as I have done with both images from my previous blog.
All of these works were created in 2008, with the exception of the first, made in December 2007.

If you are interested to view more works like these, then simply go to my tags and click on the word 'light'.