Photography as a creative act.

WALK SLOWLY ALONG A LINE OF TREES AT NIGHT. THEY MAKE GOOD COMPANY AND SHARE SECRETS IF YOU ARE LISTENING.

As a photographer, you can use visual language to express the essence of an experience. Just like a poet who combines the verbs,adjectives and nouns in a certain way to evoke a knowing, and awareness of our inner experience of a moment, we use color, light, texture, combined (composed) in a particular way to express the experience we have and want to translate into a photograph.

As said Robert Henri said in The Art Spirit, "Do not paint the night, paint the feeling of the night." And this is true with your photography, you do not photograph night, you photograph those things that evoke  the feeling of the night. I did a series of trees at night and had the revelation that they have a whole other live at night, one we do not see. That is what I wanted to photograph. I stood there in the dark with them and wondered what was it like to BE a tree in the night. Only when I FELT a connection to the trees did I click the shutter. If you don't connect, don't click.

Photography is a creative act of discovery, transformation and revelation when we are fully present to what we encounter.  Summer is the perfect time to stay out after dark and discover how to capture the feeling of the night.  Give it a try. I would love to see some of your night photos.