Long Exposure – Scott Murphy ⊙ Photographer

Storm Passing

Square crop of a long-exposure night photograph showing a wet road, passing car lights and a lightning-lit storm moving into the distance.

A passing storm, distant lightning and a minute-long exposure. Sometimes the photograph depends on being ready to walk out the door.

Crowd Control

A 323-second long exposure of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre, with the surrounding crowd dissolved into faint atmospheric traces.

A Field Note on photographing the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre, using long exposure to turn a crowded museum encounter into an image of time, movement, and human presence.

Under Montréal

Long-exposure colour photograph of a train blurring past the Champ-de-Mars platform in the Montréal Métro, viewed from the platform entrance at the bottom of the stairs.

A photo essay from the Montréal Métro, where colour, motion, tiled surfaces, and human scale turn underground infrastructure into a study of daily passage.

True Stray: Specimen B/13•B/21

An overturned shopping cart frozen at the edge of a river in winter, partially embedded in ice, with smooth long exposure water surrounding it and a rail bridge visible in the background.

A field note informed by Julian Montague’s taxonomy of stray shopping carts. An overturned cart at the river’s edge is examined as a Class B True Stray, shaped first by human intervention and later by water, ice, and time.