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Light is the primary factor in our ability to interpret and define the universe. Capturing light in long exposures breaks down our conventional understandings of time and space. Time is no longer linear. We see multiple moments all at once. We become time travelers.

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Photos of Dennis Calvert (154)

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Fairwater Icons Whit Green
R Digi Ryan O'Connell
LED Eddie No real name given
Hugo Baptista Hugo Baptista
Awake at Night Aaron Ploog
NASA: 2Explore No real name given
Dave shot David Lane
melanoid Melanie
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OPTICAL NIRVANA 267 photos, 39 members
This American Life • Theme of the Week 260 photos, 402 members
Photography is not a crime 2,189 photos, 2,495 members
North Alabama Photographers Guild (NAPG) -Next meeting March 8th 3,559 photos, 237 members
Acworth, Georgia 384 photos, 42 members
Light Painters From Around The World 8,391 photos, 1,265 members
New Belgium Brewery 12 photos, 3 members
Krystalle Wetzlich 6 photos, 4 members
Shining Light on Cancer 3,453 photos, 504 members
topclasshighstyle 0 photos, 1 member
Light Painted Illustrations 153 photos, 32 members
One Strobe Pony 54,523 photos, 7,667 members
Atlanta Graffiti 10,621 photos, 1,205 members
The world best Light Art Photographers 282 photos, 24 members
ATLANTA PHOTOGRAPHERS GUILD - Next Meeting March 6 @ Elliott St 47,944 photos, 2,611 members
F-light of the Night 75 photos, 74 members
Luminous experience 1,136 photos, 137 members
Strobist.com 528,356 photos, 104,175 members
Light Painting Portraits 1,301 photos, 246 members
Canon 7D Digital SLR 219,310 photos, 8,213 members
Bloody hell, you made my retinas pop out and run around the room 208 photos, 47 members
Light graffiti 1,643 photos, 313 members
DIYPhotography 19,005 photos, 11,332 members
Red Rule 409,697 photos, 35,505 members
Alabama Explored 212 photos, 56 members
The World Through My Eyes - Weekend Showcase is *OPEN* 2,878,190 photos, 86,411 members
*Karma* 685,275 photos, 15,647 members
After Hours Landscapes 108 photos, 29 members
Light Painting Champions 229 photos, 57 members
Light Painting Competitions and Themes 464 photos, 771 members
Light Type 199 photos, 32 members
*DIY Photography Equipment 7,675 photos, 6,774 members
DIY GUYS 158 photos, 123 members
Sloss Furnaces 965 photos, 91 members
2012 Light Painting Olympics 1 photo, 66 members
Roman Candles 107 photos, 25 members
2010 Light Painting Olympics 129 photos, 123 members
Birmingham Photography Group 2,830 photos, 236 members
POTPOURRI MAGAZINE 93,218 photos, 6,118 members
scheletri (Partecipate al PHOTOSCHELETRI 2012) 657 photos, 93 members
Facedown 1,582 photos, 226 members
Any Derelict Building 75,833 photos, 3,595 members
^V^ CAVERS, CAVES & CAVING PHOTOS [ CCCP ] 13,261 photos, 1,243 members
Green is Beautiful 570,870 photos, 48,976 members
Alabama Shutterbugs 8,464 photos, 300 members
Night Images 788,739 photos, 96,030 members
What's Your Technique? 2,144 photos, 426 members
The freaks come out at night. 6,475 photos, 303 members
This Week in Photo 167,341 photos, 11,957 members
Long exposures at night 57,202 photos, 4,825 members

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Eyegasms 4 photos

Testimonials (6)

TaktheTalk says:

"I would like to take this time to sincerely thank Mr. Calvert for being so kind enough to share his light painting processes and techniques with many of us flickrites. You have influenced many people in more ways than you can imagine. Part of my success as an artist/photographer began with your kindness to share your techniques. Because of you I was 1 of 30 artists to have 1 piece selected out of 40,000 portfolios for an exhibition domestically in 2010-11 in the AP program for high school. The judges really loved my steel wool piece as they selected it to be there cover poster. AP receives roughly 720,000 pieces of art work which include drawings, paintings, and photography. Only my photo was selected. Not only that, I was able to score a perfect 5 of 5 on my portfolio and received 6 college credits. Even though much of my portfolio consisted of skateboarding portraiture, the steel wool piece YOU inspired me to create really brought the flare for my breadth portfolio. Thanks for being a mentor for all of us on flickr."

22nd June, 2011
| QUADRO | says:

"Leonardo da Vinci of light painting"

2nd March, 2011
DoctorTongs says:

"Dennis Calvert is one the most inspirational Light Painters I have encountered. I met him on July 22nd, 2010 working the Light Painters tent at FloydFest 9. We spent 3 days and 3 nights light painting, his motivation kept us going through the morning. It was truly awesome working with him and he is a truly awesome fellow. I had a blast Dennis!!! I hope we get to do this again. I'll be making plans to hit Alabama in the next couple months."

26th July, 2010
Dark is Lite says:

"Before I even had a flickr account, I remember getting online and looking at his photostream hoping that he had new shots posted. I'm truly fascinated by his work and his has been a huge inspiration for me! Thanks!"

4th August, 2010
Moved to: http://flickr.com/photos/russellbarnes says:

"I'm going to keep this simple because words are pointless when the art of Mr Calvert so obviously speaks for itself. So, in short, Dennis is like a planet of creativity all of his own - replicate it if you can, or if you dare, but just sit back and admire if you can't :)"

17th March, 2010
tackyshack says:

"Dennis definitely wants to take his light painting efforts to the farthest reaches of his imagination and I'm really digging what he's doing with them. I will be looking for consistently bigger and better things from Mr. Calvert as I'm sure he'll continue to be an inspirational light painter. Keep it up Dennis!"

26th November, 2009