Saturday, March 12, 2016

Stairway to Incineration?

Photo date: March 7, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken at the Stephen Schwartzman branch of the New York Public Library, and shows an example of the strange effect I call the light metamorphosis, in which light rays seem to get enormously amplified.  We see a woman walking up a stairway, and it looks almost as if she is walking toward a fate of incineration by those laser-like beams. I am reminded of the climactic scene at the end of Wagner's Ring Cycle, in which Brunhilda rides her horse into the flames.

The photo was a non-flash with an exposure of only .74 second.

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