Electricity + Lemons = Light. Stick two electrodes in the lemon with something around mains voltage at a couple of amps or more and it starts to sparkle.
“Continue reading” for unusual light formed by electricity and – you guessed it – lemons.
It needs small electrodes.
This is just an adaptation of the glowing pickle experiment. Presumably the flashing is sparking due to local heat and gas formation preventing a good contact. No doubt a bit aided by production of flammable gases from electrolysis.
I’ve not seen it done with lemons before and I have a tree full of them and they are relatively transparent. They also smell better than pickles. If life hands you lemons, make Lemon lights.
This one is a 5 second exposure to show the lighting effect.
These lemons were running out of steam having had many sequential shots. Not easy to replace as the supporting wires were soldered in place to be unobtrusive. Time to remove the lemons, unsolder and pack it away.
This is how I like to do things. Find some interesting effect and expand on it to become an expert and get some best of the web original shots. Do it in a weekend and publish it, usually on my site (but this time on G+ only). Pack it away and start something else.
I took 270 photos for the Lemon series and perhaps 8 hours time for zero cost.
So what is next?. I have a jar of pickles, but the pickle stuff has been done to death on YouTube and TV. But it’s all the same thing. Seen it once and you have seen them all. Really what they need is some imagination to see pickles in a completely new light ….
So who has some inventive ideas? Do you?
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Photo Date: Oct 9, 2011