{"id":8078,"date":"2016-01-03T06:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T11:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2016-01-03T06:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T11:59:15","slug":"a-picture-about-nothing-happy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=8078","title":{"rendered":"A picture about nothing. Happy Sunday!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White Birch, Laudholm Farms, Wells Maine<\/p><\/div>\n

“If your eye is generous, your whole being is full of light!” Jesus<\/p>\n

On my photoprowl out to the snowy fields and forest a few afternoons ago, I was on the\u00a0boardwalk at the Wells National Estuarine Research Center at Laudholm Farms in Wells, looking for whatever spoke to me of winter. It was early afternoon and the light was already almost horizontal, but where, in the days before the snow, it seemed to pick out the warmth and texture\u00a0of the world…now it cast blue shadows and drew the detail sharp. The contrast between the texture of the bark on this birch, standing a foot from the boardwalk, and the fine grained texture of the snow behind it caught my eye. There was something in the shadows, the way they lay across the snow and behind the birch, that added interest, and the little shattered stump, so pointy, fell in place as an accent. It was the matter of seconds to lift the camera, already set for great depth of field, frame, placing the diagonal just so, and shoot. In-camera HDR and processing in Lightroom brought up the shadows on the trunk and in the snow to make them look natural, subtly molding the surfaces the textures where they fell.<\/p>\n

And still it is a picture of nothing in particular. It is a composition about composition…an image about imagery. I could look at it forever. I am tempted to make a really large print of it and hang it where my eye could discover it again, sometimes, in passing, and pause to see what is new in it. It would make a great picture for the wall of a doctor’s office. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It is, so to speak, a playground for the generous eye…inviting vision…inviting the light inside to come out and play. I think it brings the spirit to the surface, so it fills the eye, brimming like water in a spring. I think it wakes the wonder that is the life of our souls and tempts us to touch what is eternal in us and in the world. Ah, but it is just a picture, you say…a picture of nothing in particular. Yes, I say, and that is what is so wonderful about it! But it takes a generous eye to see. Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n

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