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As dawn arrives on the slopes of Moel Famau in North Wales the first rays of golden sunlight splash through the densely packed pines, casting highlights and shadows in a wonderful random and constantly changing drama.
Birds greet the arrival of a new day in an explosion of sound and life, and I'm there to revel in sensory overload as waves of joy and peace flood through me.
It's a real discipline to focus on capturing the joy of first light in a photograph, hopefully in a meaningful way that will convey just some of the feeling I'm experiencing being there. I've learnt that, to sucessfully photograph light in a way that emphasises the its emotional content, you have to set the light against dark, and this is what I did here, using unlit dark trees to contrast the trees that were glowing in the morning sun.
As a Christian, I believe that God created light with just a spoken word, and I can certainly see something of His divine nature on mornings like these.
Filename - trees 04.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 40mm
Exposure - 6secs @ f16, ISO100
Location - Moel Famau, North Wales
This image - 640x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera movement.
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