Color Or High Light?
It has been said black and white photographs are a contrivance since we see in color. But we also see in degrees of luminance – our eyes and minds are wired to keenly perceive contrasting patterns of light and shadow. Luminance, or luminosity, is the interaction of light and shadow. It is light transferred through space as…
Light and Space
Home to the Light & Space art movement, Venice, California speaks my language. Light is a THING. It is beyond things. It is the subject of conversation, ideas, art. It is a metaphor, a suffusion, a mystery. Light blasts the gritty sidewalks, glimmers on the ocean waves and illuminates dreamspace at night. I love that it is…
Light in the Darkness
When a thick marine fog enveloped Santa Monica Bay it was time for a midnight run. Not a soul stirred as heavy waves of fog rolled through the air, flowing around trees and over beachside parks. To the eye it was a deep, dark, dank night. But to the camera, the fog reflected light and familiar city scenes became a continuous scrolling Chinese…
Into the Light
Centuries of light have filtered into recesses of the rock-cut meditation caves encircling the massive Kailash Temple at Ellora, Maharashtra, India. There is not much light in these deep caves but what is there is an interplay of mystery and revelation. The light provides a thin veil between the inner space of the cave and the outside world. In…
