Light

At its core, photography is nothing more than the physical registration of light. In fact, there can be no photography without light and therefore it stands true that light is always at the center of a photographer’s creative process. Nevertheless, it is equally true that light is not always what makes any given photograph exceptional…

In this selection of photographs, light was very much the dominant factor that inspired me to capture the scene to begin with and later drove me to begin appreciating the photograph as the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. Here you will see a variety of different types of light; piercing directional light, soft diffused light, natural sunlight, man-made light, warm light, cool light etc.. Truth be told, the majority of the photographs I take depend heavily on the character of the light conditions during capture and I would venture to say that the same holds true for most photographers.

The key to appreciating light lies in being aware of the effects different types of light have in different physical environments. For example, under strong mid-day sunlight, a coastline with rolling sand dunes and calm ocean swell has a specific character that would be very different to say, a tall man-made structure with angular shapes and hard edges. Appreciating these differences and having these attributes become second-nature in your decision-making-process is key to consistently creating photographs that exhibit light at its very finest.