Lesson 28. Light: Side Light
Back to our imagined scenario. Now imagine that you’re walking around the tree, to the right. As you do, the sun comes into your peripheral vision on the left, over your shoulder, and as you move more and more to the right, the sun moves more and more to the left until it’s halfway between your left side and the tree. Like the Peggys Cove lighthouse, the tree is now lit, according to your own position, from the side. The light streams through the leaves and creates many small shadows in on the surface of the canopy. Here and there a leaf flickers, and the light comes back to you, not because it bounced off the surface of the red maple leaf but because it shone through. For a moment there is a blaze of brighter, more ...
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