Steel Wool Burning

The other night we lit some steel wool on fire.  This was the result. =)

Awesome right!!!

All you have to do is stick one of the balls of steel wool into a whisk, tie a rope or something of the sort onto the end, light the wool on fire(it helps if your Dad has a blow torch to really get it going☺), and start spinning.  Sparks will fly everywhere.

When Dad and I were in Anchorage we bought a pack of steel wool with eight balls in it.  It wasn't enough.  Everyone wanted a turn spinning it.

If you want to take pictures of it like these, all you have to do is slow your shutter speed way down.  All these were taken with a 30sec shutter.

Turing a flashlight on in the middle of the exposure and getting yelled at by your sister (me) for ruining the picture, actually looks pretty cool.

If there's a bright moon make sure you keep your aperture pretty small and ISO low or else you'll let too much light in and the pictures will look like this.  Kinda cool but not really what your looking for.
=)