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This post is for Sue, who inspired me to go for light.
One day my first mini-walk was at 7am, considerably later than usual. There was a huge bonus. The sun was above the bank of clouds that seem to be a feature of sunrise lately, falling beautifully on the flowers and leaves of the hibiscus in a neighbour’s front yard. One of my photographic intentions for the year is to make greater use of light, to notice the way it falls as I prowl around, and to capture it as it illuminates small pieces of my world.
I don’t know how much this pairing, taken with a different camera, light falling differently, a few weeks later, demonstrates about the power of light. Not as much shadow? More luminosity? Preferences, anyone?
Linked to DJ’s spectacular RegularRandom, this week sliced fruit as you’ve never seen it before.
I like the warmth of the first few, they seem more natural, either way they’re beautiful and I wish they were hanging over my garden wall 🙂
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I’d send them to you if I could, but they mightn’t take kindly to snow – is it reaching you?
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Light and shade, captured beautifully.
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Beautiful Meg and, like in painting, to put light against very dark makes the whole image pop. I am still too tentative with my darks in painting.
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Hello there! I depend on nature to provide my light: I don’t have to do anything except snap it.
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But you have to have an eye for it too
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The first set has a warmer light, the second much colder. I prefer the sunny ones, but that is one very pretty pink hibiscus when all said and done.
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Two different cameras, so not quite a fair comparison. The second lot seems to capture texture better – may be.
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The first images, with the morning light and the shadows are lovely, Meg. We’ll get you addicted to light yet ! And thanks for dedicating this post to me 😊😊
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Oh, I’m addicted to light all right! Just not very good at creating it, as you do.
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Whilst my eyes are less good than they used to be, I ‘see’ better than I did! And act on what I notice
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I think I’m drawn more to the earlier set. But the whole enterprise is gorgeous.
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And they’re still flowering a good month later.
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