Diana Yusti, SUNY Rockland Community College

"Luminosity"
Photographer Diana Yusti shot this unusual cityscape on new York’s George Washington Bridge in 2010. “It’s part of a long-term project—I’m making a lot of images with the slow- shutter technique,” Yusti, 22, says. “I captured this by opening my shutter long enough—about five seconds—to let more light in while riding in a moving car, creating a ‘zoom burst’ effect. The white lights that seem suspended in the air were the lights located on top of the bridge’s cables.” The other lights came from moving cars. Yusti took the photo using a Canon EOS 7D with a 28-135mm lens. “There’s something about ‘light photography’ that excites me,” she says. “When you press the shutter, it becomes a story in time.”