{"id":285,"date":"2011-12-12T01:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-12-12T01:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:27:32","slug":"december-week-1-foam-and-fenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"December Week 1 – Foam and Fenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Light is the magic word for photography.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact photography is exactly that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153painting or drawing or imaging\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with light.\u00c2\u00a0 As I have mentioned time and time again, the intensity of light changes depending on time of day and season of the year.\u00c2\u00a0 The light at sunrise and sunset can turn an otherwise ho-hum image into an eye popper. Low angled intense light brings enchantment to even the most mundane subjects.<\/p>\n

The winter is a wonderful time to use this light. Sunset comes early in the evening or late afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 So you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to spend 16 hours waiting for it.<\/p>\n

This beach foam and reflected cliff side in low-tide water-covered sand is an example of late afternoon light making everything from the water to the foam bubbles glow.\u00c2\u00a0 To accentuate the relatively large clusters of sea foam I used a wide angle, 18mm lens.\u00c2\u00a0 I was not using a full frame sensor camera so the 18 mm is about 28mm, which is still quite wide.\u00c2\u00a0 Also I got down very low and very close to the sea foam.\u00c2\u00a0 It reminded me of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snow banks.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Having grown up in upstate New York my fond childhood memories include jumping into 3-6 foot snow banks.\u00c2\u00a0 But now I prefer the ocean side and my feet in the sand.<\/p>\n

I use a tripod nearly 95% of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 But on the beach it was easier to fall to my knees and plant my elbows in the wet sand.\u00c2\u00a0 I also needed a fairly fast shutter speed (1\/250) to freeze the movement of the sea foam that was gliding along like ice skaters pushed along by the strong winds.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet I still wanted a pretty small f-stop to get great depth of field (in focus from close to far),\u00c2\u00a0 f\/22 in this case.\u00c2\u00a0 As I walked toward the surf I was able to position myself at an angle to the sun and the cliff side so that my polarizing lens was pretty effectual.\u00c2\u00a0 This will make your colors richer and cut some of the glare off the water \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rotate it too far otherwise your reflection will disappear.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My second shot was captured with my PowerShot S95 while walking at sunrise in Sausalito.\u00c2\u00a0 An old Chevy pick-up was parked on Bridgeway.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I might have normally passed it by but Photochrome<\/a> has on its agenda for 2012 a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153headlights and grills\u00e2\u20ac\u009d theme night.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The fun thing about having assigned subjects or concepts is that it opens one up to a wider field of view.\u00c2\u00a0 Again it was the light and angle that made this picture.<\/p>\n

It is no wonder that all which is holy and sacred, peaceful and just (God\/dess) is called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, without it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partner \u00e2\u20ac\u0153darkness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the metaphor and reality of light has little power.\u00c2\u00a0 So as we head toward the winter solstice and experience again the shortest day and longest night we are reminded of painting with light and awakening our hearts and souls to that which is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153awesome and good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Do join the community of herchurch<\/a> in San Francisco for a candle light Christ-Sophia Mass on Sunday December 18th at 10:30 AM to celebrate light and darkness and the rebirth of the Divine Feminine in our world and hearts.\u00c2\u00a0 Blessed Be!\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy the brass quintet, harpist, inclusive hymns and inspiring word\/wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0 And there is a lunch provided afterwards.<\/p>\n

We are at 678 Portola Dr.\u00c2\u00a0 And then you can hoop over to A Woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eye Gallery where we are having a colossal sale \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all images are 25% off.\u00c2\u00a0 (Okay, this has now officially become an advertisement).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Light is the magic word for photography.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact photography is exactly that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153painting or drawing or imaging\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with light.\u00c2\u00a0 As I have mentioned time and time again, the intensity of light changes depending on time of day and season … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-4B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}