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I was taking night photos along the road on which we live in Big Valley, central Pennsylvania. This section of the road is surrounded by Amish farms, which do not have electric lights and thus afford a darker area in which to take night photos. A few cars and horse-drawn Amish buggies passed by as I was taking photos, making me pause so I didn't get car lights or buggy lanterns streaking through long exposures. But the pauses gave me another idea for a night photo. I set may Pentax K-1 camera at 30 seconds, f3.5, ISO 3200 on a tripod, triggered the built-in 12 second timer, and then jumped into my car and sped off into the darkness, leaving my camera behind. I would like to say that the streaking lights in this image are the lanterns of an Amish buggy going warp factor five, but they are actually the tail lights of my car as I drove down the road.