Ring of Fire

Having arrived after dark at the beach in the Philippines, I went for a walk, hoping to find something of interest to photography. As luck would have it, I found a fire dance performance under way. I worked through the crowd and set up my tripod. This one-second exposure was one of the first images I captured, and was perhaps my favorite of the entire four-month trip around the world. I like the contrast of the apparent tranquility of the image with the obvious kinetic energy of the actual event.