Study No. 8 by Guy Hoffman

For some time aspiring Hot Shot Guy Hoffman has had what he calls an unhealthy obsession with pushing the boundaries of the still image. With the desire to capture something such as the "temporal impermanence of light" driving him, he decided to write his own software to get the results he was after. His words on the project:

In all my work, my goal is to reach the brink of subtle surrealism, playing with the distortion of time and space, and directly addressing human perception as it participates in art. ... In the Time Bracketing series, I tried to make each image seem as if it could almost have happened in reality. If I'm successful, only closer investigation reveals first the physical impossibility of the image, then the dynamic presence of time as it creeps over the depicted space, and finally the realization that the image actually *does* capture reality in a very faithful (if surprising) way.

Good luck Guy! We've reached the homestretch. You have until Monday @ 2PM to enter the Winter 2007 Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! Get it in, get it out there. Enter today!