Poi (“Ball on a cord”)

During my time at FSU I got to meet a pretty cool group of people known as the Pyronoles. These guys go out and practice a form of performance art, called Poi, that involves swinging some sort of weight and the end of a string in different rhythmic and geometric patterns. The two effects that I had the pleasure of photographing were glows and fire poi. My method here was to slow the shutter speed for long exposure photos that captured the movement of both fire and glow light alike.