Tuesday Tips #280 – The Element of Shadow

We’ve never met a photographer that wasn’t a slave to the light but we’ve got to admit that darkness comes packed with its own interesting qualities. If you turn your focus from the light for just a little while and instead hunt for the shadows, you might be surprised by what you find. Patterns exist everywhere out there and we love finding them amongst the shadows. You can find them in crowds of people or animals or amongst plants; so start there and see what else you uncover!

“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”
-Douglas Coupland