photo studies
light dance origins
A night with campfire
Me and some people spent a night at a pirate camp in Poland, near Usedom.
As I watched the campfire, as always drawn to the flickering flames, I picked up the camera, wondering how it would catch the flame.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/01_MG_6237_2-700.jpg)
Then I moved the camera while taking the shot.
Intrigued by the results with the flames, I went looking for other light sources.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/02_MG_6243_2-700.jpg)
And found it wound around a lonely pole.
This was my first encounter with fairy lights in connection with playing with light.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/03_MG_6281_2-700-683x1024.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/04_MG_6283_2-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/05_MG_6335_2-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/06_MG_6336_2-700.jpg)
Two weeks later, I went to the Berlin Festival of Lights.
Some intriguing pictures are the result of that tour.
And yet, it was the fairy lights that kept popping up in my mind.
I wanted to experiment with them again, and kept on the lookout for them.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/07_MG_7394_2-700.jpg)
At some point I decided to simply buy myself a set of fairy lights and play with them at home.
Months passed.
But in March 2011, I did my first experiments. Only with red this time.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/08_MG_4804_3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09_MG_4819_3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/10_MG_4848_3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/11_MG_5020_3-700.jpg)
After my first steps, I became interested in the interaction between my face and the lights. And later my body and the lights.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/12_MG_4879_3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/13_MG_4897_3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/14_MG_5089-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/15_MG_5088-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/16_MG_5119-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/17_MG_5117-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/18_MG_5116-3-700.jpg)
And then I began to dance with the lights /:-), drunk with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/19_MG_5098-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20_MG_5099-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/22_MG_5059-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/21_MG_5059_3-bw-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/23_MG_5085-3-700.jpg)
![light dance origins & first attempts by Charlie Alice Raya, 2010/11](https://www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/24_MG_5086-3-700.jpg)
Despite loving the light dance results, it took almost three months, before I picked up the fairy lights again, and danced again. This time several nights.
Published light dance series:
light dance, blues & greens merged