Light Wall
In keeping with my recent emphasis on unusual light, this scene comes from my bedroom wall. This light reflects off the neighbour’s house through a small window in my closet and then shines through the louvred closet doors. It casts striped light on the yellow wall, and in this case, bends it around a large tube that is leaning against a bookshelf.
Light like this lasts for only a few minutes during the days of the year when it can shine at this angle. I like this kind of light and shadow, as seen in this earlier picture from blinds.
Every house should be designed to have these little interludes of beautiful light in unexpected corners of the house – they make it so much more liveable. This one was not by design however, I installed the window in the closet with the idea of more light in it, but not with any idea of light projecting out of the closet like this.
This caught my attention just before heading out for a lunch and photo outing with the Toad of Toad Hollow Photography a few weeks ago, so it sits in a folder with all those nice memories from that afternoon in the sun. Memories that I have yet to process into images that I can post. I guess this is a start.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO3200, f2.8, 1/20th, hand held.
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I really like this – it has so much going for it, light (superb) texture and just enough confusion to make one wonder, is it a window blind?
David.
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Thank you David. A lot of this image came in the processing. I probably could have got a better exposure to begin with, and it being reflected light is not as strong as this makes out. But it is more like what I was seeing.
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The more I look at this, the more I like it, especially the way the light plays against the textures on the wall. This is a good reminder to all of us to be watchful of these sorts of opportunities that are lovely, and fleeting.
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Thank you Melinda. I was watching one of those opportunities pass over my computer yesterday morning as the rising sun, for a few days only every year, and if it is clear, peaks in the corner of the window behind me and casts my shadow onto the computer tower. My shock-headed hair, not yet combed. I should have got the camera, but it would have ruined the moment, so I have stored it under that wild bed hair.
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Suggestion for a warning sign to be posted at your house: http://bit.ly/11vI5mn
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Ha! You got the reference to Struwwelpeter 🙂 We had a book with that poem in it when I was a kid. I remember that one of my sisters was quite disturbed by it. Whenever I have hair like that, I think ‘shock headed”.
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My knowledge base may not be deep, but it’s wide….
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If my printer worked, it would be done already…
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Beautiful. You captured a wonderful depth within the light.
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Thanks Ryan. Depth in a flat wall – I like that:) Maybe it is what draws me to this kind of light, now that you mention it.
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You do like the diametric. 🙂 But then, so do I.
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Now THAT is an interesting comment Ryan. I had to look up diametric to make sure it means what I think it does. Now I have to think about how this shows in my work! Thanks so much, I take it as a huge compliment.
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I always learn the most interesting things about myself after a work is finished. 🙂
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I think many photographers don’t realize that light itself can be the main subject in a photo, as you have here. It’s a great statement and it shows that you are very aware of the photographic opportunities available.
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Thank you Ken. I try to keep my eyes open, at least some of the time.
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