Chris Jordan

This image is part of an exhibition by environmentally-conscious photographer Chris Jordan on Hurricane Katrina - Check out his website for more from this fascinating, socially-scathing artist... His site includes work from three recent shows. I was especially intrigued by the one on scale and statistics.

Writing with Light

I've been taking walks every morning with my camera.

Something wonderful happens to me during these walks as I connect to the world through the light I see reflected around me.

This morning I was doing the assigned reading for our class before my walk and was intrigued to see that the word photography itself comes from the Greek for 'writing with light'... it made perfect sense to me since that is exactly what it feels like to translate the Light I see into an image I can share with others.

Here's a whisp of light from this morning's walk: