What’s happening in our brain circuits? Pops of light and sparks, as dendrites conduct electrical signals to other neurons, sending information to your limbs to carry out a motion, or to your higher-order brain regions of consciousness to support thought. (I don’t know actually about the pops of light and sparks, but the rest is true!) I took this photo at a shutter speed of 2 seconds, an aperture of 6.3, and an ISO of 100.
Before working on this blog prompt, I didn’t know how to take long-exposure photos, but I fell in love with the beautiful effects we can create through applying it to light. This image, a zoomed-in view of a foil Christmas tree with small LED lights embedded at points in its branches, reminded me of our neural anatomy and the processes of how our physical biology influences our higher-order functions like remembering, planning ahead, communicating, and reasoning.