I've seen this technique before but hadn't had the chance to try it out. First off - it's a little easier to have someone help you. A bunch of us from our local photography club decided to get together to see what we could capture.

Taking some steel wool, a wisk and a leash or chain that you can attach the wisk to you place some steel wool inside the wisk. To allow more oxygen to flow into the steel wool you kind of fluff it up a bit. Taking a 9V battery or a flame from a lighter or matches, you start the wool burning and you start swinging it around.

Using a slow shutter speed allows you to catch the trails as you see here.

It was a lot of fun trying this out and hope to get the chance to try it again.

To do the photo justice, look at the larger versions of the photo.

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