{"id":1896,"date":"2011-02-13T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/13\/2132011-who-goes-there\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T11:12:23","slug":"2132011-who-goes-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"2\/13\/2011: Who Goes There"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n

Snow had fallen heavily the day before, but people had already cross-country skied and snow-showed the trails at Rachel Carson NWR, so, with care, a booted photographer could get back pretty far in the woods. These tracks must have been made just before the snow ended. Though I thought I was capturing the tracks, it turns out this is mostly about what the light is doing with the texture of the snow. A Black and White conversion brings that to the forefront. <\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS at about 285mm equivalent field of view, f5 @ 1\/1250th @ ISO 80. Snow Mode.<\/p>\n

Processed in Lightroom for clarity and sharpness. Converted to B&W using the Green filter effect.<\/p>\n

And, being Sunday: Like the image itself, our spiritual journey is often more about what the light does with the snow than it is about the tracks we, or others, leave. And yet, without the tracks, what is there to draw another\u2019s eye? We are much more likely to stop to see the light on the snow if someone has laid a track across it. That seems to be a part of what it means to be human. \u201cWho goes there\u201d is our first question. But it eventually leads to the realization that there is a there<\/em> to go and a going<\/em>\u2026and that every step, to the eye of the spirit, is through textured light!<\/p>\n

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