Sometimes I am inspired to create some images that are unique and different. When I look for something to inspire me to get outside my comfort zone it often centers around light. I don’t normally think of myself as a particularly creative person. So, finding the inspiration to be more creative takes just the right circumstances.

Let me think. Light. Motion. Lack of light. Moving light.

During most of the year light is not in very short supply. Most of spring, summer, and fall present us with a lot of daylight o get outside and enjoy ourselves. And this is when I enjoy creating most of my photography. I get outside during the daylight. The closest I get to not being out during daylight is if I photograph a sunset or a sunrise.

So, in most of my photography light is important but it is not the standout feature of the image on its own. Can I make light the feature of a photograph. What conditions does it take to make that happen? What circumstances will inspire that?

Having a lack of light helps to inspire new ways to use light. So, that means winter. In winter, especially once we are deep into the freeze in upstate New York, there is a lot less daylight hours to get out and explore with our cameras. So maybe that is a good time to experiment with some light in other ways.

During the Christmas holiday season there are more sources of artificial light around than probably any other time of year, where I live. Light during this season comes in many forms. And the sun is often not one of them.

The lack of light from the sun allows for long exposures. Then the other sources of light can really stand out. Put some alternative sources of light in your images. Some of those sources of light can be stationary. You can utilize things like decorations.

Then what really will make an image pop is add some form of motion to a different light source. If you put a light source into motion during the exposure of you image then you are probably going to create something completely unique. Unless you are setting up some sort of elaborate contraption, which I assure you I am not, then the motion of your light through the image will be different every single time in some way.

Therefore you have created a 100% unique image that is practically unduplicatable. So, get out there and make some one of a kind art.

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