I am an artist and photographer progressing through trial and error, developing through experimentation, and expressing through imagery.

My name is Jon Smith and I live in Fishers, Indiana with my wife and two sons. I specialize in high speed photography of light bulbs. I choose to primarily work with light bulbs because, in addition to the inherent symbolism of ideas, they are an everyday item that most people ignore. By bringing them out of their element, filling them and shooting them, I can create an interesting focal point that sparks imagination and allows people to see the wonderful things that happen in a typically “unseen moment.

There is a certain unpredictability with high speed photography that I’m drawn to. It allows you to capture the unseen, the transition between before and after. It shows the beauty in destruction. Sure, it starts out as a normal light bulb and ends as a pile of broken glass, but for just a split second, it’s something beautiful – and to capture that is wonderful.

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If you're interested in purchasing, licensing or commissioning work, contact me at wide.eyed.illuminations@gmail.com