The Camera and The Light

I think the camera is a tool that encourages you to combine multiple ways of thinking about the life before you. You find yourself seeing shapes and light and how each of these simple observations triggers your thought process -and maybe a new way of seeing some common object you see every day.

It is a creative process we all have-but some of us maybe suppress it because we have no means to express it. As a photographer I use the camera to release my thoughts and ideas.  Line, shape, texture are only a few of the elements of the visual image and photographic composition.  Photography is not just capturing an image, but rather observation of what you are looking at and actually seeing it. What is the interplay between the shape and the light falling on it?

In my backyard there is a table and chair - and I noticed the early morning sunrise and how it seemed to frame the objects. By moving around the table and chair, the two objects took on a different appearance depending on the angle of the camera and the direction of the light.  Light and shadows work in harmony in defining what we are seeing.  Light can make the most mundane subject visually interesting.