In case you want to try this at home, put your camera on a tripod with a small aperture (like f/22) and a long shutterspeed (4 or 5 seconds), focus, and slowly zoom out. This one was from around 50mm to 18mm. I tried this with trees outside in the summer and remember others doing this with Christmas trees last year. I thought of it again when I saw it on Courtney’s Click It Up a Notch site (see link on side). Fun!
BTW, only one more week of Project 365 2011!
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This is spectacular. At first I thought it was a sparkler. Very nice control on the zoom.