sparklers in the backyard and experimenting with different speeds and exposures. Even my mom got in the action making her own snake. We had not done this before because my nephew was still too little but now, even though he could not hold the lit sparklers, he had fun running all over the place and looking at the pictures in the camera. He was even game to help me experiment with this action shot. He had shoes that light up when he runs, so I took this 2 second exposure of him running, but you can only see his shoes. Here I fired m flash half way through the exposure, to see him. One last experiment had my sister move her sparkler in a circle for half a second, then for a full second. This last one was my favorite, and we got it, just in time before a storm came by with it's own light show. 
