Place Where Light Flows Through Rocks
Place Where Light Flows Through Rocks Water flowed through here to carve this canyon, but light flows in and changes the way that we see it. The sun's light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow, but a clear sky scatters blue light, making it appear blue. The human perceptual system handles the changing light conditions by trying to assign the brightest light to white, coloring our perception of everything else around us. Further complicating the situation, we have only limited capacity to notice and remember color. What color is snow? Everyone knows that it's white. Yet if you look at it on a clear day and pay close attention, it's often a blue-white. When you notice that the light in the shadows on snow are very blue from blue sky light, it becomes apparent that you can see something like snow your whole life, yet never fully notice or comprehend its true color. Can you photograph something well if you are not accustomed to fully seeing it? Even if your c...