Just like most people with thier individual skills, my love of photography started as a hobby and I like to take a small 'time-out' once in a while to keep the fun and hobby element going, after all, all work and no play gets pretty tedious.

So, I took an evening off and decided to photograph something I have always found interesting - smoke. Smoke trails are susceptable to any movemoent or slight breeze, and it can create the most fantastic patterns, which are great to photograph. I set up a small backdrop, configured my off-camera flash, added a reading lamp, and set light to a incense stick. I took around 40 shots and, once I was happy with what I had, I transferred them to the computer and began to edit them; these are just a few of the finished results, I hope you like them.