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I set up my tripod on the loose gravel at the base of the trail. I take a few shots to start with, I’m just so curious these days about experimenting with photography that I almost can’t wait to get started. {counting breaths counting seconds counting minutes… through this new obsession, I learn the zen of long exposure photography} It’s cold but not too cold, so I take my time and think about the view from the top of the trail. It’s pitch black when I make that steep rocky climb with my tripod and my gear.

I feel giddy, like a kid again.
Photography, I love you.

This is the part of city life I am often drawn to: the edge of it, the cliffs, the overlook. Being above and removed from it gives me permission to view it’s wonderment with space and silence. It’s just what I needed. I hiked slowly back down, sure of my footing, bringing home with me exactly what I had come looking for.

Light.

‘Tis the season, right? I seek it in many forms. Fairy lights, city lights, holiday and festive lights, reflections, or firelight. They are all equally beautiful and warming. Today, please share with us your favorites, and enlighten us all.

Comments

  4. Awesome pic!

    I definitely need to work on low-light situations, and NEED a tripod.

    Here are just a few that were taken in the last few days.

    I love this first picture for the story: baby Lucas born with only half a heart (HLHS), and he is getting ready to celebrate his first Christmas with mom and Dad. It was just a really cold, cloudy, dreary, Sunday morning, fire lit, tree lights in the back– and he was snuggled next to his mum–just watching her every move.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccasmithphotography/5240526823/in/photostream/

    The next two I love because it's my two miracles–29 weekers, who spent their first Christmas in the NICU weighing less than 3 pounds and now we are celebrating turning 7!!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccasmithphotography/5240526289/in/photostream/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccasmithphotography/5240526545/in/photostream/

  7. When I was little my dad would always stretch the strings of Christmas lights out across the floor and plug them in to make sure they were all working before putting them on the tree. I would flop on the floor, getting as low as possible, studying their beauty and the way they reflected on the hardwood floor. It made my heart sing! It never felt like Christmas until this magical moment!

    Three years ago we moved into an old house, and the floor of the room that was to become my studio had floors identical to the floors of my childhood. As Christmas approached I remembered those early years of being awestruck by the beauty of the lights on the floor, so made a series of shots of Christmas lights on the floor. Here's the first one I published on my blog: http://capturedbylight.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/christmas-lights/

  9. I love this shot (and the others). I used to work out off of 2222 and still remember that drive as being the most pleasurable commutes to work ever.

  19. So magical….thanks for the feature! I can't wait to string up the rest of my holiday lights, of course, they're cool to photograph alone, but I love the soft colorful glow they give to my white walls and other things in the house too. I'm loving celebrating the holidays with everyone's photos! ~ Mary

  20. Gorgeous shot!!! I've only recently started to play around with longer exposures…I've got a long way to go…

    Thank you very much for including links to my images 🙂

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