I Follow the Light

Welcome. I have designed this blog for the purpose of sharing my adventures, discoveries and quest for learning.

I want to share my knowledge and give back to the community that has been my life, for as long as I can remember.

I'm not only a photographer, an artist, a human being, but a follower of light. In photography, we strive to capture one thing, light. The trick is to observe, know, and feel the light.

Beauty is in the light, and that is what Photography is to me.

I welcome you to come along on my journey.

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Good Light, Bad Light

I'm supposed to watch light, huh?  What about it?  Isn't it all the same? Well, no, it's not.  Much to my surprise, the more I did what Vincent told me to do, the more I realized that maybe what he is saying is true.  Maybe he had a point to this light thing.  I began to notice how "warm" the light was on the hillsides just before sunset.  How it made them look like a painting. 

I remember how amazed I was at the differences there was in water reflections, how deep and rich the colors had become.  Another thing I noticed was how much more detail there was in the ordinary objects I took for granted.  Yea, Vincent was right, light changes, it warms up, it cools down, it saturates, it desaturates.  I then began to look everywhere for light. 

I'm sure Rebekah, at one point, wanted to stuff a sock in my mouth, because whenever we were out driving somewhere, I'd holler, out of nowhere, "wow, look at the light" or "wow, look at that".  She'll deny it, but I know my enthusiasm for being able to see what I wasn't seeing before was like watching a child in a candy store.   

So now, whenever someone asks me what they can do to improve, I always tell them, "watch the lilght".