Enlightenment
Enlightenment
Here is a dialog I have been part of numerous times -- slightly exaggerated for effect:
Q. Who Are You? What Makes You Different?
A. It's My Lighting, Dude. My Lighting!
Q. 9 out of 10 People Tell Me It's Their Lighting. What About Your Lighting Defines Your Work?
A. It Brings Out Emotions, Man.
Q. And What is It About the Your Lighting That Brings Out Emotions, That Makes You Different? What Do You Mean by Light?
Without light, you could not make a photograph. In fact, without light we could not see. Life could not exist. What is the most frightening experience you have ever had of darkness. For me, it was being alone in a forest at night. The night was moonless. Stars were hidden behind a dense blue-black fabric of clouds. I was eleven. I was lost. I did not know which direction to travel. I fell and skinned both of my knees. There were no light rays to bounce back at my eyes. Without light we can not see. So let there be light!:
In Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman writes an essay on light:
...Even people who have been blind since birth are greatly affected by light because although we need light to see, light also influences s in other ways. If affects out moods, it rallies our hormones, it triggers our circadian rhythms. During the season of darkness in northern latitudes, the suicide rate soars, insanity looms in many households, and alcoholism becomes rampant...
Read this book if you can find a copy on Amazon or E-Bay. It is out of print and published by Vintage in 1991.
Please don't take this lightly. Light has many meanings. Do you see the light? Are you feeling light right now? What time is it? Is it dawn or dusk? The sweet light? Daylight. I know someone who is light in character. You may have an easy, graceful, delicate manner. You might call that a light touch. Sometimes being happy is referred to as light spirited.
Skylights. Windows. Do you know what a mullian is? Some people light up our age or history. Light can show the way. Some other words that refer to light are: prosperity, happiness, joy, felciity, trifling, frivolous, unsubstantial. Please don't take this lightly. Light may mean inemcumbered, unembarrassed or clear of impediments. Being light may include being active, nimble or swift.
A color that is not of a deep shade is often referred to as light. Light brown. A light complexion. Light may refer to the brightness of the eyes.
That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
Do you have a light? It might mean to illuminate or ignite. My brother baked two breads for my birthday one was heavy and the other was light. Yesterday the light rain built up strength and there was a heavy downpour. Light is breaking through the clouds. To illuminate. To light up. Am I putting this in the right light? He never had a heavy thought.
Oh yeah. There is the way light falls on a subject. Lots of photographers apply a chiaroscuro method of portraiture going back to the Rennaisance painters especially Leonardo Da Vinci.
Are you carrying a light load or burden?
By now you may be illuminated. Are you clear in mind? Enlightened? Knowledgeable? Informed? Whoops! I just made a slight error. The crow lighted on the top of a tree. A lighter than air flying machine is house in photographer David Zimmerman's van which is often effected by a light wind.
Light can render form, enhance textures, provoke emotions, lift us up, and set us down. It can provide drama and emphasis. There are all kinds of shadows. Dark cannot exist without light. What is dramatic lighting? It may mean an event or series of events marked by emotional conflict or by evoking the keen interest of onlookers.
Light refers to a variety of sources. The Sun, candlelight, starlight, a lighthouse. She lights of a room. You light up my life. It make me feel light-headed, dizzy and a little giddy. I better lighten my load.
Shine , illuminance , glare, brilliance , sunshine , phosphorescence , radiance , moonlight. Glow little glow worm glimmer glimmer. How many song titles can you think of with the word light in the title. You light up my life.
Is this casting light on the subject. Shall I elucidate? I want to set a good example, be a paragon, a luminary. I believe that when I am true to myself, I become a kind of beacon
Comments
That is brilliance. I am also amazed at how people in general don't think about the fact that others say the same things about what makes them different. I suppose it takes perspective. :-)
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November 6, 2006 07:46 AM