Journaling the Lazytea Way

Mood: Harmonious
Listening to: Celtic Music Podcast
Reading: The Tao of Photography

I shall have more than one journal entry about the dance of light. When I first began working with Randi Hirschmann providing some canine subjects for her professional work, she would call me and ask, "How is the light over there?" HOW IS THE LIGHT? ah.... gee - I don't know. She would begin asking about shadows and colors, etc. It was the first I became aware of the photographer's view of light. The next lesson from Randi was to rate reflection of light by "light, medium, dark" I am forever vacillating between wanting to present myself to photograph when the light is perfect and "taking what I get" as a gift. Clearly the light in Alaska is ever changing - a constant variable in the most untamed sense.

With the drift of my own personal physical vision problems, I realize I need to develop my own personal approach to photography and light. I let the camera see for me what I cannot see. The art comes is shaping those visions with the light which presents itself.

More beautiful words from Tom Ang - The Tao of Photography

"It may be shocking to realize - particularly if you are a photographer - that we cannot see light itself. We may think that we are adding light through the use of electronic flash; we may also believe that we are shaping light by moving lamps around. But what we are really doing is only watching the effects of these changes to the light. Our knowledge of light is confined to observing the way things about us change the light and are, in turn, changed by it. Light is like air in this respect. We "see" air only ecasue it rouses the waves to crash against the land, blows cold on our cheeks, causes the clouds to rush across the sky, or rustles the leaves in the branches of the tall trees. ... The joy and delight photographers take in their experience of light may, then, be sharing of the experience of life itself. Our every photograph is a testament to that feeling - almost a prayer of thanks for the miracle of life-and-light."

"Photography must contain one thing: the humanity of the moment." - Robert Frank

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The cold remains - the gift of sunshine returns. Still the breath in the cold fogs the lens, binds the timing, slows the sands of digital emulsion. I find myself dreaming of the sands on the beach at Perth in February.
Thank you
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