English photographer Martin Kimbell utilized LEDs attached to hoops and long exposure techniques to create airborne light forms that resemble that of a otherworldly spacecraft. He hurls the LED hoops in the air, resulting in light twists that look like tornadoes. His work is is similar to that of photographer Andreas Feigninger’s project created back in 1949 when the artist attached lights to a helicopter. Kimbell’s series is inspired by the works of Arizona-based photographer Stu Jenks who used light and fire to create similar tornado-looking light forms. The photographer explains in an interview: “What I love about light painting is that it gives me a level of control and creative freedom which is rare in most forms of photography. Through the adding of different light patterns, or by illuminating it differently, I can completely transform the scene.”

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via the art elephant