08/07/2021
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Oh, that NATURAL LIGHT!
This photo was taken in Big Bend National Park.
During my last year in college, my fellow Photography Majors and I were blessed with the opportunity to travel! We traveled with our Professor to west Texas: Marfa to see the "Alien Lights" and camped in Big Bend National Park. It was absolutely amazing! While we were there, however, we had a mission. We were instructed to photograph a series while on our trip.
I decided to focus on Macro Photography, per se. I didn't own my wonderful 50mm Macro Lens at the time, but I wanted to Zoom in on the subject and draw the viewer to the way light affects the entire piece.
In this piece, for example, the thorns on the cactus are entirely different depending on which level of the cactus they are growing. The light is warm because this is near Dusk.
Photography's definition is "Writing with Light", so the series wasn't fancy, filled with a lot of fluff: it was just revealing the truth.
I photograph what is in front of me. I do not add artificial colors, weather, or ideas of beauty to my work. I believe in the natural. I believe in what is in front of me.
I hope and pray that I am doing justice to God's artwork and the beautiful people that I have been privileged to photograph through the years.
The light writes a story, gives an emotion, and can completely change an image.
The one rule I immediately threw out the window in school was "Don't ever shoot in to the sun." I do it almost every time I photograph. The sun is our life source, why not use it to bring life to these photos, too?
