While I was busy capturing light, I noticed that there were some really good clouds in the sky.
Sydney doesn’t do fluffy white clouds too often, so I really clicked away.
And there was more of the same the following day!
I was happy.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Capturing Light – Part 4
I’m not usually a morning person, but getting up early has its benefits when it comes to capturing light.
First rays hitting the front garden.
Light peeking through the shutters.
The softest of light hitting the brickwork.
Capturing Light – Part 3
Evening light produced a very different mood.
Under the Hills Hoist.
An evening star.
Night shadows and light.
Capturing Light – Part 2
With my newfound enthusiasm for light, I found a raft of things to photograph inside the home that afternoon.
How light reflected off the enamel wash stand.
How it diffused through the wispy curtains.
How it cast shadows on to the floorboards.
Simple everyday things were suddenly a little special.
Capturing Light – Part 1
This week I started another photography short course, an extension to the course I took this time last year.
To get us all thinking about photography, the first week concentrated on light and how to capture it. When you think about it, photography is just about capturing light as it reflects off various subjects. It’s how we capture that light that makes things interesting, and in an age where everyone seems so snap-happy, making ‘interesting’ images getting more difficult to do. Well, I guess we can only try.
As an exercise, we went a few doors down to the Paddington Reservoir to look around, and eventually snap a few photos. Last year I had a go at a few shots there myself, but this time around the light conditions were very different. It was midday and very bright. That made for some interesting shadows.
But what I liked the most was how the bright light reflected off surfaces, like water.
Happy New Year
Well, that was a really long blog break! It’s three weeks into 2015 and I hope you have been enjoying these very warm days. We’ve been on the Central Coast post-Christmas, but frankly I haven’t taken out my camera a whole lot. The only photos I have for you are these from a brief visit to the village of Patonga.
The Hawkesbury was a good place to be if you were a fisherman as there was a really warm current for a week or so after New Year’s Day.
Although Umina Beach was packed, there weren’t too many people swimming here. Probably a good thing since we heard through the grapevine that someone caught a bull shark just off the wharf!
I’ll be starting a photography course next week, so there will hopefully be more photos to post in the near future.
Static and Silence 