Athletic Light Graffiti Edit
Stickman Basketball Players

We’ve covered light graffiti before, the photographic art of creating designs or writing with the use of a small, rapidly moving light source in a dark setting, yet it still continues to fascinate us as well as the rest of the photo-intrigued blogosphere.

Although this image looks like a bunch of stick men are playing a round of night basketball on a dimly lit court, there was likely nothing present in reality save for a digital SLR camera and a Maglite.

I love the author’s fantasy in his Flickr description:

**Shot taken with my Special stickman filter. This is what happens to our world after dark. They are invisible to the human eye, but they are there!! I will be building my case against them, collecting evidence night after night! Stay tuned!!

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