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Star Light, People Bright

Discover unusual photographs by French photographer Christopher Hibbert, blending time exposure techniques with creativity.

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I love unusual photographs. Sure, the advent of digital imagery has made it a lot easier folks to play with photographs, manipulate them, make them surprise or delight us. But as someone who used to spend many, many hours in the darkroom when I was in high school, I still have an affinity for just being old-fashioned clever. That's why I really like a lot of the shots taken by French photographer Christopher Hibbert, who is clearly very clever indeed. Check out this photo, called "Field Walk" -- which he created without software manipulation!

[Click to anthropophotonate.] How cool is that? You can tell from the stars this is a time exposure, and while the shutter was open he used flashlights to create the human figures. I don't want to read too much into the photo, but I like the way it ties the light from the stars in with ...

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