Just Shoot the Light



Lions Park Beach

St. Joseph, Michigan

This image is from earlier this week when  one evening it looked like the  skies were going to light up at sunset like they sometimes do over the lake and turn the sky into a brightly colored backdrop for this scene I had been thinking about.

I talked Denise into riding with me to the spot I had seen earlier to see if things would work out like I had envisioned.

But not tonight. The clouds were there, and the colors started to come around for a while, but then  they faded away.

So I remembered a little lesson from a recent workshop where the instructor told us to not go into a location with a locked in thought of what to shoot. That way if things don't work out, like they didn't that night, you still could maybe make things work.

In his words "shoot the light".

That simplifies things. It gives you options and doesn't lock you into one thought. Change an angle, change a viewpoint, change thoughts from a brightly colored scene to a moody monotone.

That's not a bad way to look at things. Just take what life gives you and make the best of it.

Don't over think it.

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