Light Painting Chaos

The above photo of light painting chaos is the result of a few hours in a train tunnel, as we dodged three trains lol.

We wanted to try some new things and thought an old train tunnel would be the perfect location, and we also thought it was late enough in the night that the risk of train traffic would be minimal, yeah we were very wrong on that!

We entered the tunnel from the opening on the east end of it. When we got to the middle area, we set our cameras up and snapped a few test shots.

As soon as we had everything set and ready to go, we heard and felt the rumble of a train. Grabbing our gear, we dashed for the closest "cubby hole" (coffin shaped rooms about 2 feet wide and two feet deep) that line the tunnel. With my camera already set up for long exposure, I hit the shutter and captured this.

The train exited the west end of the tunnel and we thought we were good to shoot. Set up again and of course right on Que, another train. We repeated this process three times in total until we finally had the time to get the shot we were after.

It was chaos, we got a chaotic shot out of it and it was extremely dangerous. Not something I would ever recommend doing, but damn it was fun lol.