I made sure to clean the bulb before shooting. The specs in the glass are (as far as I can tell) impurities in the glass itself.

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A shot from the bottom of an old 70's freestanding living room lamp I've got hanging around. I replaced the regular bulbs in the globes with some cheesy, but fun, multi-coloured stained glass bulbs to give the photo a bit of colour.

this is a spiral electric lamp shot from above.

The lighting is this shot is 100% from the glow of the glasses. No external lighting was used.

The glasses were coated with glow in the dark liquid (from the inside of glow bracelets). The glowing is from phosphors. Phosphors are a substance that radiates visible light after being energized. I had a mere minutes to catch this image, as the phosphors lose their glow and need to be recharged. Around halloween, is a common time to see glow in the dark jewelery or pendants (the phosphors will last longer in an enclosed environment than outside in air) And it is those phosphors that is the source of light.

Full view is much clearer.

ummmm, it's a lava lamp ;-)
the bigger pic is 120k if you're inclined to get a better view and to see past the killer compression

The background was painted to compliment the actual subject.
Side note, light bulbs are hard to break with any semblance of control.

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