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Light is all around us, but we often don’t really notice it.  Our eyes are sensitive to light but they also compensate, so we often don’t see things as they really are.   Film is sensitive to light, or in digital cameras it is the photoelectric light sensor known as a charge coupled device or CCD.  Film and CCDs record the light focused onto them for a short period of time in the camera and they record the light just as it is.

These images were made using Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP) which is done by making longer exposures and capturing moving lights.  These photos are all single photos and not the result of working on a computer.  Jan Wollert and Jorg Miedza, two German photo artists, produced these images.

Check out their website for more amazing LAPPs, or continue below after the jump.

LAPP is a refinement and enrichment of Light Drawing AKA Light Graffiti