Chapter 1

The Color of Light

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Light is the most positive energy we know. It reveals truth.

Most of the energy that light emits strikes a surface, bounces off, and then goes elsewhere.

Light is so essential that we cannot exist without it. Our lives depend on light as much as they do upon water.

Through photography, we capture for ourselves and share with others the glory of that positive, critical energy. Just like life, light brings us great joy.

Light comes in many colors.

As photographers, we are communicators of light. The images that we create enter the body through the eyes and travel to the brain, evoking a response.

Love the light, the ...

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