Mubarak Village at night.

Mubarak Village nightscape

A long exposure nightscape of Mubarak Village beach near Karachi, Pakistan. This shot was taken at 2'o clock in the morning.The whole landscape was lit by moonlight and small bio-luminescent plankton in water which give off a blue/green light.

I had my camera on a tripod and had to use very slow shutter speeds and a small aperture for the correct exposure and maximum depth of field. The slow shutter speed has turned the waves into a blanket of fog engulfing the whole scene.

   The small bio-luminescent plankton give off light when disturbed. The ones in front of a wave are disturbed by wave motion and give of a brief spark of light. This phenomenon produces a brilliant color show and is very rare.