Abstract photography is a genre most people ignore. However, everyone is capable of shooting abstract photos, and the results can be very satisfying.

Making abstract wallpaper and gorgeous slow-exposure shots doesn't require a bunch of design apps or photography lessons. Learn how to literally toss your camera to make abstract light art.

One problem: The camera was broken. “It sometimes spills out two pictures at a time and the film often gets stuck in the gears, exposing and mangling them in unpredictable ways,” he says.

Here are a few tips and tricks photographer Harrison Jones has learned from more than a decade of photographing fireworks.