Camera Tricks

I was always fascinated by photos containing flame torches, which display wakes of illuminating light. Albeit it's sight is flabbergasting, it is not so difficult to produce such images. The trick is to have the camera's aperture open for more than a normal exposure time. In such event, the moving object engraves it's path of movement on the film making it appear as one continuous tail of flames.

A simple match stick did the trick for me here.