As a nature and landscape photographer, much of my work revolves around light. Its availability, its quality go a long way in determining you end-product, the image.

If you’ve been reading my blog regularly, you’ve probably read a couple of mentions here or there of bad weather, even of a “bad light” curse…Now that’s all good and dandy, but the fact is, the last thing I have control over is Nature itself (actually some would argue that there isn’t much I have control of anyway…). Does that mean that if the light I am hoping for doesn’t materialise I am good as toast? The answer is a resounding NO.

The fact is as I and many posters on this blog have suggested in the past, there are good photo opportunities to be had in any kind of light. It takes an open mind, a willingness to experiment and LOTs of practice. As matter of principle (and habit), I am constantly looking for photographic opportunities in my daily life, be it on the bus to work, on a stroll around my neighbourhood or during an actual photo “expedition”. By training your eyes to see where there seemingly is nothing to see, you will quickly find that there are more opportunities than you’ll ever have time to capture.  Some of the elements I use in my search are patterns, shapes, lines, colours, motion, contrast. Each of these, used alone or in combination will open your eyes to even more opportunities.

I a recent answer to one of my posts, Jim Goldstein provided an interesting bit of advice, that I strongly encourage you to follow: “I make an effort to never end an outing without getting photos and experimenting in search of those opportunities”.