Week 2: Inspiration in Aldrich Park [Sierra C.]

My teammates and I held a photo-shoot in Aldrich park this morning to take team photos and I was initially volunteered as the photographer, which had me looking at the lighting differently in order to get the best pictures. Getting the angles right, adjusting to the brightness of natural sunlight and dealing with facial shadows made things a bit difficult. It wasn’t easy but it was also inspiring and motivating in a way because it forced us to be creative in how we staged each picture. There was a point where I was no longer the photographer and it was during this time that I took this photo of the sunlight coming through one of the trees and casting a shadowed outline of the leaves on the path. I thought the visibility of the individual rays was really beautiful and I love that the light is broken up in such a way that the color spectrum that ultimately generates white light is visible to the eye. The effect it creates is magical and as a writer and visual storyteller, this imagery inspired my imagination and stirred up a wealth of different ideas to write about.