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Light Painting: Colourful neon lights brighten up dark landscapes

Photographer David Gilliver creates these stunning light paintings of neon shapes and lights, amazingly without the use of any computer editing.

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Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist

Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist

Created using very long exposures, the photographs are primarily taken at night using various tricks of the trade.

Revealing the secrets behind his technique, Gilliver said: "I use various light tools to create objects within the landscape, and I am present in each image the whole time the photograph is being taken – I remain invisible as I am constantly moving around and never illuminate myself during the exposure. All of the lights are created on location. No post-editing trickery is ever used."

To find out more, visit Gilliver's website.

Glowing blue wave-like shapes flow across a nighttime landscape with illuminated buoys and navigation lights marking the scene, created using long exposure light painting by David Gilliver
Glowing neon sphere with pink and blue geometric patterns sits on rocky terrain beside a still body of water at dusk
Glowing neon sphere with pink and blue vertical stripes positioned on a sandy beach surrounded by large rocky outcrops lit by warm light
Neon light trails in magenta, green, yellow and white wave across the ground of an ancient fort with stone walls and a circular tower under a twilight sky
Neon light painting of intertwined ribbon shapes in green, pink and purple glowing against a rocky shoreline under stormy skies
Luminous neon lines in green, blue, pink and red swirl through a dark brick tunnel, creating flowing wave-like shapes in a long-exposure light painting
Neon light painting with flowing ribbons of green, pink, blue and yellow light draped across a coastal fort and tower at night
Bright magenta neon apple with a small yellow leaf glows against a red brick shed and dark hedges in a countryside setting
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