Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!

Let there be light!  Or at least let there be light in all the dark places.  In our writing, it’s sometimes cathartic to bring light using our words to showcase redemption in our dark characters, or to perhaps illuminate the evil that always seems to lurk just below the surface of our skin.

As a writer, it helps sometimes to clear off the desk, ignore the mental clutter, and bring light to our soul simply by writing!

Photography is a whole other ball of wax!  Light is an infinite scale to be manipulated, fudged, added, subtracted, by playing with settings, or adding external lighting such as portraiture work, or subtracting overexposure (operator error) with Photoshop or various editing software.

So the other day I decided to photograph my jet black cat in “negative” mode on my smartphone (an HTC Amaze).  Sigh!  Yes, these are the things writers do when they should be writing.  Correction–these are the things all people do when they are avoiding productivity.  WE PLAY WITH OUR PHONES!

So really this photo is actually a reversal of light.  What is really dark, is perceived as lightness.   The cat is black, as is the shelf behind her.  The green box is really pink.  The purple box is really rather yellowish-tan.

So what could’ve been just another crazy pic, ended up being a stimulus to get the writing hands moving again.   Leonard Cohen once said:

There’s a crack in everything.  That’s how the light get’s in. 

I took a picture simply to play.  But instead it inspired me to work at my writing.    Yes, light is an infinite and timeless  energy source, once it’s tapped into, both in the physical world and the metaphysical and metaphorical world.

Voila!  Let there be light!