Light Dancing

one of the many things ive learned over the years about photography is light and how light works in relation to cameras and lens . Their are many factors that effect the type of light expereinced mostly  by clouds and their densities johanne wolfgang goethe on a trip to the harz mountains in northern italy in 1855 noticed how sunlight was defused by a hazy mist that layed in the valley defusing the light making the colour look softer, this he called the soft effect.Secondary colour relation of red to green  being prime example,the opposite  he called the powerful effect.On observing a field filled with yellow flowers he noticed the strong contrast between the two colours and called it the powerful effect. Artists like Johann Itten used this concept in his painting technique .You might wonder what  this has to do with photography, well bear in mind that turning light into a colour image whether on film,sensor, or print  work on the same principle that red, green and blue  when light is past through these creates all the other colours hasnt changed.Jesus said while im in the world there is no darkness in him there is no darkness at all,but in this world there is darkness and light exposes the darkness.Getting back to photography in which i am no expert, i have found in that trying to understand how light works and the direction in which it falls on a subject can really make all the differance to a shot. their are fewer things more beautiful to me than a Kingfisher but to capture the complete beauty of this bird a really good understanding of light will help you to capture a more realistic image as the camera and lens will only capture what you tell it to ,but you will never capture a moment entirely as you expereinced it. I have watched kingfishers on my river for over 45 years  and have never tired of seeing them, from that sudden unmistakble pip pip  to seeing them dive and catch a fish.