Image DAY 298 PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES

Camera Tossing

FLY-BY SHOOTING

A photographer finds a setting that is almost entirely dark, pierced by a few points of light. The camera is thrown upward; a timer has been set for the shutter to click while it is suspended in midair. The spinning camera catches the lights as they whiz past its lens, creating wild, abstract patterns and formations in the resulting photograph. (Precautions are taken, of course, to softly catch the camera as it falls.)

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The practice of camera tossing has been explored by professional ...

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