A Mexican native performs her fire twirling along the beach in Playa Del Carmen. She just happened to look over right as I snapped the photo.

Taken at Catherine Hill Bay on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Taken at Catherine Hill Bay on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Inspired by Japanese animation, this avant-grade production paints a vibrant musical landscape, featuring bizarre characters, animated movements and an exhilarating fire twirling performance.

‘Heroes of the La-La Land’ was an amazing pyro performance - a part of the month long Singapore Arts Festival. The scene here is part of the grand finale when all the characters came together to fight and performed a perfectly choreographed ending to this great show.

This is also a handheld one second exposure. I am so glad I didn't have a flash or a tripod - I would have completely missed this shot and the previous one too.

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This one hit #3 on Explore!

Simei, Singapore

2006

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Steelwool spinning on Supermoon night at Redhead Beach, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (May 2012)

Getting in low... well worth the partial soaking of the camera... :P

Thanks Darren!

Explored! - #16

Inspired by Japanese animation, this avant-grade production paints a vibrant musical landscape, featuring bizarre characters, animated movements and an exhilarating fire twirling performance.

‘Heroes of the La-La Land’ was an amazing pyro performance - a part of the month long Singapore Arts Festival. The scene here is the grand finale when all the characters came together, their fire devices almost touching each other; and performed a perfectly choreographed ending to this great show.

This is a handheld one second exposure. I am so glad I didn't have a flash or a tripod - I would have completely missed this shot (and others too).

(edit)

This one hit #1 on Explore!

Simei, Singapore

2006

| Arjun Purkayastha • travel & fine art photography • | Facebook page |

Taken at Catherine Hill Bay on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Steelwool spinning on Supermoon night at Redhead Beach, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (May 2012)

Getting in low... well worth the partial soaking of the camera... :P

Camera with 11-16mm lens on a Gorilla Pod

Thanks Darren!

Explored! - #9

Taken at Catherine Hill Bay on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Into the darkness

More zany burning steel wool done in the ANZAC drain's entry tunnel.

30 sec exposure

shot with 35mm Minolta Dynax 3i SLR

Taken at Catherine Hill Bay on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Jacob McGrath from Dream State Circus gave participants in the L I G H T P L A Y workshop a once in a decade opportunity to photograph high octane fire-juggling and fire-twirling using slow synch flash. His show was just amazing and it left everyone absolutely awed! Check out Dream State Circus at: www.dreamstatecircus.com/

I had so much fun at a friends studio in Grand Rapids, where we did a fire shoot with members of KnottyBits Sideshow

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A firetwirling performance at the Melbourne Docklands before the weekly fireworks.

"A midsummernights tree", by MZA, as seen at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.

Three performers with two torches each, almost aligned.

More information on this production and the performance can be found here.

This picture made it to Explore. The highest position was 427 on August 18, 2007. See here for the history.

This is the first photo, that made me go "Wow, this is what I want to do" and started my Journey as a Lightpaint Photographer. Thanks to Tobias Hünlich for collaborating with me on this one.

Taken at Kurnell, NSW, Australia

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Catherine Hill Bay sunset

Taken at Catherine Hill Bay on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Fire twirling on the beach in Phuket Thailand.

Some hot experimentation with Rhys Jaconley

Catherine Hill Bay sunset

On a beach in Thailand

Vanuatu

First attempt @ "Burning Man" Shoot. Next attempt will hopefully be a lot better (minus mosquitoes).

flame everywhere flame, it truely hot ... WoW

taken up on that long Mainzer shoppingnight

I was a little scared and excited and the stupid expression on my face was the result

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I got an opportunity last night to take several photographs of someone fire twirling.

I was set up with my tripod but unfortunately didn't have my remote shutter release (so you can see some ghosting in places).

It took me a while to dial into the best settings to show the action, but I'm pretty pleased with how this one turned out.

Catherine Hill Bay sunset

Steelwool spinning on Supermoon night at Redhead Beach, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (May 2012)

Thanks Darren!

Some hot experimentation with Rhys Jaconley

FRL 2005. i took a series of firetwirling shots, which were ok, but kind of same same... so I wanted something more out of them. A bit of photoshopping on this one and I got what i was after.

Visualising Sound - Burning Ring of Fire - VA

Fire twirling Terrigal Beach

Fire performer at Washington DC's Potomac Fire Enclave.

Photograph and fire by Antti Suniala.

Assisted by Marjo Ylikorva.

This was a shot of a friend firespinning at a recent party. he was using a dragon staff. the camera was handheld and fired in bulb mode, it allowed me to control the fire intensity and direction.

this is the first time i have attempted a 365 project, and i have no idea how i am going to go. wish me luck

strobist info:

one yongnuo speedlight at 1/2 power fired from camera right.

Here's another 'crew shot' from a recent underground session. I'll be posting the main shot from the session that will be part of a series sooooon!

Terrigal In Rythm drumming & dance performance & flow jam fire twirlers