the light is all: Photo of the day: Oliver

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Photo of the day: Oliver

Oliver, a photo by The Bacher Family on Flickr.

Anyone who knows what's been going on in my life this month will understand why I've fallen behind on my photo blog. I'm hoping to be able to catch up now... Here's a start.

I took this photo of my sister's new cat, Oliver, as a demonstration of my favorite lens, a 50mm f/1.4 "prime" lens. I love the way it focuses on just a narrow sliver of depth of field, in this case, Oliver's beautiful eyes. I chose to convert the image to black and white because that emphasizes texture, in this case, the fur and whiskers.

Here's another favorite from the same set:

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the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson