http://photoarts.com/gallery/SATO/satoexh.html
There will be a Tokihiro Sato exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago next summer.
His technique is to use very long exposures and move throughout the scene with a mirror which he uses to direct sunlight back to the camera.
He presents his work as 36x48 inch transparencies as well as prints.
His work has an otherworldly feel when viewed online. I'm looking forward to seeing it up close and personal.

Thank you for sharing this with us Chunk. I checked out the link and his work is magical. I wish I could see it. I was thinking of how we have such an advantage with being photographers ourselves. I mean we can really feel what he had to go through to get these. Glad it was him! lol
Kit

Wow, I'll have to hope that it travels to New York. Those look really amazing. The long squiggly ones look like entities, the flowing balls look more like spirits, or "orbs" if you're into the ghost-hunting spooky stuff. Definitely quiet, spiritual work.

Thanks for sharing.

Megan

oooh, very nice. My favorite is the one of the little balls floating around the abandoned shack. Very cool.

I understand how he does it, yet on some level I don't understand. I don't understand how he can take such a long exposure in such bright daylight. I don't understand how the squiggles are formed, exactly. I don't understand how he knows exactly where to stand thousands of times to fill the image with such massive amounts of light. For instance, in the first picture, did he actually walk to each place? It looks like miles!

It's funny how we, as photographers/artists/everything in between look at an image and while part of us might go "Wow," that other part of us goes, "How?"

I guess it's part of the curse that goes along with being a photographer/artist that appreciates looking at photography/art. It's also how we learn, and incorporate what we learn into our own work, but the curse part is that there's always that small part of us that can't just sit there and appreciate the piece for what it is!

I also thought "Hm, how'd he do dat?"

I guess it's a balance we need to strike with our own work as well - we can let the "how" overshadow the "wow." Hard to do sometimes.

Megan