1   What’ is available light?

 

 

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a lifetime … Everythingwas touched with magic.

—Margaret Bourke-White

It is 3 a.m. and a clanging alarm clock jolts you into semiconsciousness. It’s pitch-black outside; last night’s storm has subsided, but it’s still 5 degrees below zero. Ten inches of fresh snow covers the countryside. No other creatures are stirring, yet you are planning on going out in this weather to make photographs. To be comfortable outside, you will need to put on every warm piece of clothing you own (long johns, wool socks, heavy boots, layers of shirts and pants, gloves, perhaps a scarf, ...

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