It is about the Light!

     What makes for an interesting picture?  Shape, form, composition, subject, contrast...  It is all of these things, yet even more important at times is the quality of the light.  The light defines how the image is perceived.  The following two pictures have the same composition of the same subject, yet they are two completely different images.

Rock Pile and Trees;  Hayman Fire scar,  2018 - week 15

Sunny Rock Pile and Trees;  Hayman Fire scar,  2018 - week 15

     Yes it may come down to personal preferences,  yet I do prefer to work in the sunlight for landscapes, and spend the extra time working on the contrast levels.  It is no wonder why landscape photographers always seem to be waiting for the light...

A Series in Sixes

     Sometimes I can get caught up in a project that I am working on to the point that I can loose track of what I am trying to communicate.  So the exercise proposed by Brooks Jensen the editor of Lenswork is refreshing.  He proposes a short story style project where you have only six images to tell your story.  No more and no less, exactly six images...

     So here is my first possible submission along these lines.  Yes I may trade an image or two out, as I have until June before they are due.  The refinement of vision and thus story is the challenge. And yes, there is a hard deadline to be meet.

A Foreshadowing,  2018 - week 14

Writ of Execution,  2018 - week 14

#497, 498, 500 and 499,  2018 - week 14

The Path in Passing,  2018 - week 14

Doomed,  2018 - week 14

No Future Here,  2018 - week 14

     The titles tell the story...

     These images are all from one morning photography session with my 8x10.  The location is Chatfield State Park here in Colorado.  It is amazing how things can sometimes come together!