Light Observations

Market St. & 18th St.
Sunlight is streaming through the tree lined street and making a spotted pattern of light and shadow on the road. This pattern is interrupted by the solid blocks of car shadows moving steadily through the street of Jaguar spots. The sun glints off the roofs of cars and straight into my eyes. As the sun hits the front and back windshields of the cars, there are vertical stripes of light and shadow changing rapidly as the cars zoom down the road. In the surrounding trees, light skips around as the breeze blows the leaves gently. The beautiful old houses are mostly in the shade by the protection of porches, while their roofs are bathed with sunlight. Light and shadows dance wildly out of control on the t-shirt of a motorcyclist driving by. A car's turn signal creates its own unnatural light as it flashes orange.

Wallace Park
Shadows from tree leaves bounce along the wooden bridge. The straight, unmoving thick shadows of the wooden bridge beams reflect solidly in the stream below. As fallen leaves float down the top of the stream, their shadow mirrors them on the stream floor. As the water flows gently down, the sunlight makes a rippled pattern that looks almost like shadows of fish scales with an outline of light, moving much quicker as it reflects than the movement of the water itself. The large bushes, shrubs, and grass cast shadows into the edges of the stream. The sun itself casts a painfully reflective bulb in the water. As little water bugs hop across the water, the sun catches on the rings of water they create as it dissipates outward. Dragonflies and birds flying over head create undefined moving shadows up and down the stream.