'It's all about the natural light'

For the past few years I've been posting photos with the 'It's all about the light' caption. Sporadically, so people wouldn't get overwhelmed or bored by them, since in photography, as in other mediums, it is all about the light.

Today, it struck me... the light I am expressing is not manufactured in a darkroom or on a computer...it is natural light.

It's fine that manufactured light is creating some wonderful images, however, that is not the light that fascinates me.

'It's all about the natural light'...You know...the light that Mother Nature provides for you to see.

"We are all constantly in the midst of light. We are surrounded, bathed, and nourished by it. This miracle we call light can transform. It can teach, reveal, evoke, and heal. It speaks in many voices. We tend to see light as something that makes form visible, but light reveals much more. It reveals us. In the subtle, soft undulations of a snowscape illuminated by an overcast sky, in the raw presence of a backlighted, towering, ancient oak, both subject and photographer are revealed. Light makes visible the invisible. It can show us love where there seems to be only a rotting log or a solitary rock perched on a ledge. Sometimes the subject is illuminated by light, sometimes the subject is illumination itself. Then the subject itself glows; there are no shadows."... From the book..'Making Love with Light',

Contemplating Nature with Words and Photographs

By John Daido Loori