Remain in Light was one of my favorite album titles by one of my favorite bands: Talking Heads. In this case it is partially representative of whatI'm trying to do with my photography. I said "partially" because to embrace light also means to embrace the shadow that it causes and the edge of darkness it fades into. Initially I shot according to what my human eye was most attracted to-pretty colors, shapes, patterns, and textures. Those are all good but the camera lens loves them much less than it does light and how light flows.
They're eating breakfast while I'm eating the space and shadow and tones around them(with my lens-figuratively speaking of course). We're both happy being well fed. It was an interesting exercise forcing myself to be led by light. Hopefully, I'm getting somewhere with it. I'm also using Lightroom differently to compliment my new focus.
This is my idea of a grungier more pedestrian "Hotel California". Not a glamorous artists rendition of what it was, but what it really is. I guess I feel a similarity between the tones and shading to the image from the album cover. This image makes me also think of the Talking Heads-Pulled Up:
I cast a shadow on the living-room wall
Dark and savage with a profile so sharp
Keep that wonderful food on the table
There's really no hurry I'll eat in a while
Music: Talking Heads- Crosseyed and Painless
