Light. Photography, is
all about the light.
Unfortunately for me, I don’t usually have time to wait for
the light to change,
or the possibility to use artificial light. So, I usually have to take what I get.
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In the case of this mirrored building in Houston, I got
lucky. Some people would have to wait
for the clouds to be just right, I only had a second, literally as I crossed
the street. So, looking up and snapping
with my cell phone, I got lucky and got one of my favorite photos. Lucky.
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I like this one too.
Out of the window of a plane, just after sunrise. In this case, I wasn’t on the sunny side of
the plane, but that's good, because the light just highlights the dirt on the
windows. I tilted the camera, and got
the darker blue at upper left…
...looks like “space” to me.
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Like at the Mutianyu Wall above, sometimes it’s foggy. So, you just have to make do with the
lighting you have. We were only at this
place for a half-hour or so, so there wasn’t time to wait for the fog to
lift. But, got a pretty cool effect. (Monterrey Bay, California)
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These two are both in Central Texas, just North of Weimer,
taken just as the sun came up, about 15 minutes apart. Just have to keep looking, and clicking,
and
hope the effect turns out.
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This shot in Finland was on a COLD, heavily overcast
day. The same sunless light lasted for
several hours. But in Dubai, just 2
weeks later, it wasn’t cold at all (though not as hot as it looks in this
photo). The lighting lasted only a few
minutes,
as the sun rose and cut through the haze.
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Back to the Baltic Sea, really, really cold, with the sea
freezing on the surface as we cut through it.
This light lasted a long time because in the high latitudes, the sun
doesn’t go down quickly. It’s not on a
path perpendicular to the horizon the way it is down here in the Temperate
Zone. The sun kind of rolls down,
almost parallel to the horizon,
so you have quite a long time to get a good
sunset.
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I love taking photos.
This was on the California Coast, Highway 1,
near Big Sur, 2006. The sky was a totally clear blue, with a sea
fog slowly rolling in.
Cool.
So, keep your eyes open, and keep clicking !
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Mark W. Laughlin
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