Photographing Light
Usually we use light to illuminate or enhance the subject we are photographing, but once in a while the light itself becomes the subject, and we find ourselves photographing light.
The lighting on this snowy day gave a pristine, crystal clear feeling to everything around us. It wasn’t something you could catch on camera – or so I thought. Then I noticed this view. I was standing in the shade, and my daughter had climbed up the embankment to see something close up. She had disturbed the snow from the branches above, and the air was suddenly filled with tiny explosions of light as the snow caught the sunbeams on the way down.
I suppose we are photographing light every time we try to capture a rainbow, or take pictures of sunbeams through the clouds. Interesting. It has no physical substance, yet we can document a visual image of it. I wonder if that has some deep philosophical implication?
Think about it next time you find yourself photographing light, and let me know what you came up with.
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