The essential ingredient of all photography
Light is very familiar to us but also has a mysterious ability to reveal the beauty of the world.
It's quality, direction, hue and tone help to elicit the emotional response of the observer.
The earth is bathed in it's bright warm light by day and by the stars and moonlight by night which completely changes how we perceive a scene.
We gain insights into the nature of light when a sunbeam is made visible by passing through a dusty, smoky or misty atmosphere.
The low atmospheric light of a sunset or sunrise illuminates and transforms a scene.
The appearance of a rainbow after a storm or how an object, like an oar, appears to bend when it is in water gives us clues about some of light's physical characteristics and behaviour.
