About this limited edition photograph:

The light painted photograph “Pulpit Rock Eruption” was created at Pulpit Rock in Will Baker Park in Decorah, Iowa.

Pulpit Rock is a popular hiking destination in Decorah, Iowa. Featuring a scenic hiking trail and stone steps leading up a natural crack in the limestone face, this trail ultimately leads you to a beautiful view of both the city of Decorah and the towering Pulpit Rock formation below.

I placed my Canon T3i camera on a tripod and used a long exposure of 421 seconds to create this light painted photograph. I used a powerful spotlight and two different colored gel filters to paint light onto the various rock surfaces to illuminate and add color to the scene. I then stood behind the stone wall and I used a roman candle firework to add tracers of light to the scene.

This photograph came off my camera as-is, and involved zero post-processing or Photoshop.

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