This was originally just an experiment in lightpainting with coloured lights - i got hold of a pen with a built-in three-LED assembly which i can switch the colour of:
In the end though i decided to opt for the all-blue backlit one rather than any of my more complex versions, as it has the strongest composition. The idea of circling a light around a round object on a surface is of course a tribute to deapee's "Illuminate":
and the title is intended to ironically reflect this. I also tried modifying the colours in the same way deapee did for a flatter cyan look:
but decided to keep the original colouring.
The map area showing Dumfries is not chosen for any particular significance, but was simply the most interesting-looking page on the road atlas i had.
Editing: clone out pesky hot pixels, crop, bit of cloning to remove distracting minor elements on the map (specifically the word "Dumfries"), resize, sharpen.
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Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two three now and I'm running late, sorry.
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