I often get sick of watching WWE and their steroid fighters, that fake almost the entire show. So let us head to a new wrestling craze that’s sweeping Bolivia, South America and hopefully making its way to other continents. The Bolivian version of the American wrestling, known as cholitas luchadoras, is a freestyle wrestling that provides some distraction from the daily routine for just $1. Cholita is a term used to refer to the indigenous women in shiny skirts, filigreed jewelry and bowler hats. So here’s a show worthy of American television.

Photos taken with a camera do not represent a single moment of time. Due to technological constraints these shots stand for some scene over a brief period of time. This time frame depends on the camera’s shutter speed. In motion blur, any object moving with respect to the camera will look blurred or smeared along the direction of relative motion.

Motion blur is frequently used to show a sense of speed. You can artificially achieve this effect in a usual scene using cameras with a slow shutter speed. Also Adobe Photoshop can be used for this purpose, though sometimes images may look unnatural and unprofessional. You may want to take a look at resources provided in the end of the article — they show how one can add the motion blur effect in photos.

This article presents 45 beautiful examples of motion blur in photography. This showcase isn’t supposed to be the ultimate and complete selection of motion blur images — it is supposed to provide you with some inspiration of what can be done with motion blur. All pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.