BY CATHERINE GAUGH

1. Christopher Allwine

Where: Festival of Arts

Christopher Allwine's photographs have been shown at Art-A-Fair and Sawdust Art Festival, but this is his first showcase at the Festival of Arts.

His series of "light paintings" are nighttime landscape photographs punctuated with touches of light. One series shows sleek old cars with bright spots, one in headlights, another on the tires. A third is of a metro bus with a lighted destination sign on the front. The atmospheric effect comes from long exposures and other manipulations using hand-held lighting gear.

"Working at night offers endless creative opportunities, especially when it involves painting with light," Allwine said.

He told Arts and Entertainment, a Laguna Beach cultural blog, that his tools include small lighting items - pocket-sized flashlights, gelled strobes, glow sticks and LED pens - to create the visual effects in his photos.

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