{"id":7343,"date":"2012-09-15T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2012-09-15T07:01:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:01:30","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-chasing-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/this-week-in-pictures-chasing-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: Chasing the light"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span>ight can make the difference between an ordinary photo and an extraordinary one. The irony is that, especially with natural light, light is fickle and transient. A cloud can obscure light (and sunlight filtered through the very edge of a cloud can be truly magical) and light changes as the sun moves through the sky. I’ve walked by the same scene or object a dozen times and then one day the light will be hitting it just right and suddenly I have to stop and take a picture – like with this classic car. (Okay, truth be told, it was the shiny bits that got me to stop walking and take a good look, but the light made me stay and take a few pictures while I was there.) I love the play of the light on the chrome and the deep shadows and even the way the leaves dapple the light on the hood.<\/p>\n

\""In<\/a><\/p>\n

As I was tying to get a good picture of these crab-apples, the light kept coming in and out from behind a cloud. When the sun hit the apples, it seemed to have an almost fairy-tale like vibe to it, but when the sun was behind the cloud it was flat and boring — just some fallen apples. I like the glow from this one, but I wish I’d taken the time to close down my aperture just a bit more to get more of the apples in focus, maybe to about half way toward the tree trunk.<\/p>\n

\"Crab<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d had the idea for this shot in my head for a while and one day during dinner I noticed how the setting sun was hitting the tree and treehouse. Tristan was happy to help me out with this one! I like how the light makes a sort of natural vignette that almost looks like softbox lighting.<\/p>\n

\"Go<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes, it’s about the lack of light! This was me caught in the parking lot of the grocery store last week during a downpour, trying to decide how badly I needed to get into the store to do the weekly shopping. It was such a flat, dreary day that this quick snap taken for the purposes of whining about the rain on Facebook was the only photo I took all day. But it does have a certain abstract je-ne-sais-quoi, right? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Trapped<\/a><\/p>\n

This one wasn’t about the light, but I was conscious of it when I put the elements of this one together on the way to Lucas’s first (sniff) day of school this week. I wanted the bus in the background for the school vibe, but the sun was bright and contrasty and his face would have been full of messy shadows, so I pulled him forward just enough to put him in the shade of a conveniently-placed telephone pole.<\/p>\n

\"Off<\/a><\/p>\n

And this wasn’t about the light at all, but how could I resist posing my menfolk at the crest of the hill at Mooney’s Bay? We are definitely coming back here for more photos!<\/p>\n

\"They're<\/a><\/p>\n

Alternate shot – I had a hard time choosing between these two for the photo of the day:<\/p>\n

\"Hilltop\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And some shots are not about the light at all, but just about catching those sweet moments that you know will be gone in a blink. I blogged<\/a> about this one earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

\"3<\/a><\/p>\n

Ironic post-script to the bike story? Simon’s bike is in the repair shop. Shortly after I wrote the blog post, the gears jammed up again and the chain wouldn’t stay on. Oh well, we’ll get him up and rolling before the snow flies – I hope!<\/p>\n

Autumn light is warm and flattering. You should get out and chase some light of your own! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Light can make the difference between an ordinary photo and an extraordinary one. The irony is that, especially with natural light, light is fickle and transient. A cloud can obscure light (and sunlight filtered through the very edge of a cloud can be truly magical) and light changes as the sun moves through the sky. … Continue reading “This week in pictures: Chasing the light”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7345,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}