Today’s title pretty much describes this post. I shook the “picture basket”, and took whatever fell out, which was indeed a little bit of everything.

Sunrise/sunset, helps create the silhouette.

Oft times simple shapes are at their best, when they are displayed as silhouettes.

A wetland sunrise, a western rock formation, and a wild goose.

Of course, those subjects have detail when they are captured in the daytime with frontal light.

The light of day brings us a Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel, and a pair of White-tailed Prairie Dogs.

When nature lights a scene, it often comes in dramatic spotlight fashion.

A happy little grasshopper.

Any light, including the diffused light deep in a forest, can be used with a subject that is being still and resting on a dewy plant, as is this slug.

Let us think in terms of contrast.

Color contrast such as in warm against cool, always makes for eye popping images.

Contrasts can sometimes be a harmonious rather than an opposing force.

The Black canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado was one of the first locations for me where I featured rock and light, and nothing else. This location is a great “teaching” spot.

Manmade subjects were something I embraced as well as nature. Spending time walking around and carving out (visually) a composition that seems harmonious as well as natural, is much the same as when using nature.

I always loved frost or light flakey snow, with blues skies. Every day of every season has its magic.

Back again to sunrise/sunset.

Clouds at sunrise/sunset are the foundation of a good image. Be they gentle or powerful, part of a new day or the mid point of a great storm, they add both shape and dimension and can promote either peace or power.

There are truly strange creatures to be found in the wild,

it is a funny, or better put a curiosity, as to how much time the human animal spends pushing against right and wrong. Against the simple truth from God.

Truth

May God Bless,
Wayne