Light Observation 11
1) April 2, 10:33PM, my grandmother’s house
2) Night sky in rural central PA
3) I have a lot of great lighting moments from home, which is good because I have some catching up to do.
Hilariously, the first thing I noticed when I got out of the car in PA was the lighting. The weather was fantastic and it was a full moon. Because it’s a rural area, the full moon is the primary source of light and there are plenty of visible stars. I was at my grandmother’s house. She lives in a valley in the middle of nowhere–her neighbors are very far away from her house. The only artificial light in the immediate area was coming from her house and the car lights. I ran out to the middle of the front yard to catch the picture below, but my iPhone camera doesn’t do justice to the real thing. The feeling when I get when I see a scene like this is very peaceful, homey, and sleepy. It probably looks creepy to other people, but I associate this kind of darkness and solitude, this house out in the open, with being home. I feel like the light from her house is a warm welcome, it’s inviting, and being all by itself in such a vast place, it’s like a beacon.
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