‘... after a few nights out experimenting with the Olympus,I was in love!’ South Australian based photographer and master light painter Denis Smith came to photography – and Adelaide – after a series of seismic life events saw him leave his native New Zealand where he’d had a long career in high end corporate sales.
Within two years of buying his first camera, he began creating his signature ‘Ball of Light’ images. At the time, he explains, ‘there were several light painters creating Ball of Light pictures, or orbs to use the technical term, and their images really appealed to me. I quickly started taking these light painting images into the wild, looking for crazy, open and challenging locations to work.’
And when it comes crazy locations, you’d have to…