Showing posts with label Ansel Adams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ansel Adams. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2014

the light

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Crossvine photo. 

It's soft. 

So soft it looks like a painting.
You can almost smell its mocha scent. Almost see the hummingbird waiting nearby.

It just happened. 


Sitting in my office the other morning, I noticed the light. It was cloudy, the light diffused. There was no wind. A gentle kind of morning, the light was perfect for a good photograph. 

Grabbing my camera, I trotted outside for a ten minute break. 

"Do you see something?" Asked Jennifer as I passed. 

"No." I said. "Not yet. But it's the light." Ansel Adams taught me that many years ago. And now, I've been taking photos long enough to know that it's always the light. In the right light, there's a good photo waiting. It's out there. 

All you have to do is find it.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

older

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As famed photographer Ansel Adams once said, "If you're going to get old, get as old as you can get."

He was born on February 20 and I on the 23rd, albeit 49 years apart.

Indeed. For me, yet another birthday.

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