Today I had another fun assignment, there were some high-schoolers from an AP environmental stewardship class working together with the BLM to plant a native plants garden at the BLM’s Blackwell Island recreation area. This was just a stand alone set.
This morning I went on a little bit of a trek up to Spirit Lake to photograph the workers at the sewage lagoon and what they do. Apparently Spirit Lake uses 100% of their waste water for the betterment of the community; when it has gone through a series of tests and purifying stages it is used in pivot sprinklers to water fields of alfalfa. One of the reporters was doing a story on that. When I got back to the Press, Shawn needed me to get a photo of the allium sculpture downtown and also some wild flowers. The allium sculpture photo was because of an accident in shipping which caused parts of the sculpture to fall off during a windstorm and the wildflowers because its spring time now!
Isn’t it a wonder that one of the first rules in composition when dealing with art or photography is that the human eye is automatically drawn to the lightest part of the photo. If your intended subject isn’t the lightest part, your viewer may be confused or distracted, so it is best to use that to your advantage when composing; to make the subject and the light areas in the photo or painting related.
We are inherently drawn to light; it intrigues us, it inspires us, it triggers our curiosity and we often in life go searching after it. In the scriptures another way to describe truth is light; and God is described as being all truth and all light. Light chases out the darkness and shows us the way. It gives us comfort and broadens our view. We as children of God are inherently drawn to light and to Him. It is shown to us in everything if we would pause to notice.