Finding A New Light

Last week one of our assignments for Kat Sloma's Journey of Recognition photography class was to shoot pictures in a different light.  I normally take pictures during the day in bright sunlight.  This is what I am most comfortable doing so for this assignment I decided to take pictures at night.  I am not sure if you can tell from the pictures but it was also raining quite a bit!  My husband and I went looking for interesting things to photograph. One of the things that caught both of our attention was the wind blowing the rain in front of the spotlights in the first picture.  I took the picture out of the car window from quite a distance.  When I got home I cropped the picture to help others see what we saw.    The second picture was also taken from inside of the car.  I like how the colors reflect on the road in this picture.  Both pictures are very different from the nature scenes I usually take but I think it is important for me to do new things if I am to grow as a photographer.  I definitely enjoyed the experience and I know we will take more night pictures together. 
Kat's series of classes are about finding your eye as a photographer.  As a person who spent many years of her life looking down so she would not fall, this has been such a wonderful experience.  I now notice things I never noticed before.  I am learning to see the details where before I only saw the whole picture. Taking pictures has opened up a whole new world which I now see in a whole new light.  What could be more exciting than that?