Thanks man. No photoshop used at all. I set my camera up on a tripod, set it to a 60 second exposure and ran around with a sparkler. Because the shutter speed was so low the photo becomes way more sensitive to light, enabling me to show the full stream of the sparkler
there are two simple laws of the came that allow me to become seamlessly invisible, first off i wasnt illuminating any type of light and the second is like... camera blur, if you make a quick movement right before a picture is taken the result is blur around a base figure. in this picture camera blur is just demonstrated on a much larger scale, to the point where you can no longer see any type of base figure atl all, on slight blur where ever i stood longer than 3 seconds
+here's an early conceptual picture in which i was trying to capture nature vs. man (raised contrast, emboss glow, and slight burn)