Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Source: https://500px.com/photo/27583363/sunrise-by-frode-langdalen

Theme: Sunset/Sunrise

The optical illusion in this photo really appealed to me. The way the sunset lights up the snow on the trees to make it appear as if it were a pink cherry tree in spring reminded me of home and a more livable season, even though the picture was taken on a winter day. It’s a reminder to me that even though I feel cold, gray, or stressed, that peace if available if I look for it. I’m also grateful that the sun is not in the image. In the other sunset photos I viewed, the sun was a very powerful and active force and wedged itself in as a focal point. In this photo, the sun is absent and I can wander the image freely. I am not opposed to powerful forces– but this is what I needed to see.

Theme: Sunrise/Sunset

There are a lot of beautiful sunrise pictures out there, but I chose this one because it reminds me of one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems:

“Will there really be a morning? Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains if I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like water-lilies as it feathers like a bird?
Does it come from famous countries of which I have never heard?
Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor! Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell this little pilgrim where the place called morning lies!”

There is something so hopeful and refreshing about this sunrise. The way the rising sun illuminates the haze over the field in the distance, and pours its light over the mountains is nothing short of majestic.

http://cdn.superbwallpapers.com/wallpapers/nature/sunrise-over-the-mountains-14501-400×250.jpg

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2. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/keeping-light-and-cool-with-smart-windows/

3. Bête Noire

4. A sunrise is one of the most spectacular things a person can lay eyes on. However, as I’m waking up this is the last thing I want to see. As my eyes got adjusted to the pitch blackness from sleeping, I become startled when a radiant beam of yellow and white blind me with a great ray of intensity. As it peeks out the window it fills my room with blaring reds, oranges, yellows and whites that tells me it’s time to wake up. Ironically enough, this beautiful spectacle of light is something I could never look forward to seeing.

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1) February 12 2014 8:45am

2) The sunrise and sunlight hitting the trees and buildings as well as reflecting off of the white snow.

3) As the sun was rising and the rays began hitting the snow, it looked almost as if the snow was a mirror. I could see the sky in the reflection of the snow and the world around me seemed unusually brighter than normal. Similarly, the way the sun was hitting the buildings and trees seemed to cast shadows onto the snow and ground causing everything to look much more 3 dimensional than usual.

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2. http://jasonkelly.com/2010/09/finance-at-first-light/

3. Sunrise/Sunset

4. As the sun rises at dawn, urban-dwellers wake up early to get where they need to be. As they are on their way, they are greeted with the soothing vibrancy of the sunrise over the city. The warm reds, oranges and yellows shine down on them, giving solace to people about to have a busy day of work. The warm colors give a comforting aura. The sky around the sun glimmers with a faint but breath-taking glow from the sun. The gleaming rays brightens the day of the weary workers.

2) From: http://wakpaper.com/id157297/sailboat-at-sunset-free-wallpaper-download-1024×768-pixel.html

3) THEME: Sunrise/Sunset

4) DESCRIPTION: As the day commences, the sun begins to rise, casting its first beams of the day. Stretching out from the sun’s white center are beams of yellow, like a mane around a lion’s head. On the water, the light is reflected, appearing as almost a golden pathway to the sun. Above, the day sky has begun to arrive, the faintest of blue tones beginning to appear. Where the new sky meets the beams of light, there is an almost green hue, as often happen when blue meets yellow. Through the light, the shadow of a sailboat is revealed, its details still masked in shadow.

2) http://muzumdarvaishali.blogspot.com/2012/09/poem-409.html

Blogger.com user “vaishali muzumdar,” Poem 409

3) Sunrise/Sunset

4) The sun rises in the east and welcomes a new day. At the same time in a different place, the sun sets. Day becomes night just as night becomes day, two halves of the sun’s dance, both happening simultaneously and infinitley. The sun brightens the world, chasing away the darkness of the night; it runs across the sky lighting everything in its path. But it leaves shadow in its wake, turning into blackness once again. The world awaits the next time the sun will rise.

Over spring break, my dad and I decided to go skiing. The only mountain still open was about three hours away, so he took a day off of work and we left super early in the morning so we could get there right when it opened and while it would be cold enough that the snow wouldn’t be slushy. It was about an hour after sunrise when we headed into the mountains.

We were driving through a valley, flat and bedded with tall, tan grasses and a few wildflowers basking in the warmth of the morning sun, when the road suddenly grew dark. Before us was a narrow path shrouded in darkness. The sunlight died where the mountains suddenly rose up out of the flat earth, their steep sides blocking out the sky itself as the road slipped unnoticed beneath their shadows. Every now and then a ray of light would hit the bare peaks above us, giving shape to the shadows, but the could not stretch its fingers far enough to reach us. It was as though these mountains were the last refuge of the night as it strove to withstand the assault of the coming day.

It was Monday morning at around 7am and Abbie and I were walking back towards our dorms from the academic side of campus. It was that time of early morning when the sun’s rays hit the earth at a low angle, creating pronounced shadows.

We had just come out of the student center, and as we approached the random colorful cubes that sometimes provide a shield from the wind when waiting for the blue beetle, we saw a truly remarkable shadow. The shadow was shaped like the part of a tree where the first branch stretches out from the trunk. It matched perfectly the shape of the tree behind the cubes, yet was being cast by the bushes in front of it. The bushes seemed small and unimportant in comparison to the striking shadow and tree behind it. So the effect became one of the tree’s shadow being somehow projected in front of the tree on this cube, a physical impossibility, but a connection the human mind is ever so willing to perceive and accept.

1) Sunrise over the Taj Mahal- Geraint (http://1x.com/photo/23781/portfolio/18527)

2)Sunsets or Sunrises

3) The universal sunrise: it’s what starts the day; a new adventure. This image of a sunrise is not the typical sunrise, it is not a huge blaring sun that paints the entire sky a bright orange. This sunrise is small and far away, yet still very powerful in the way it lights up everything in this photograph. The minuscule  man in front of the grand Taj Mahal and the distant sunrise tell the story of the almost unimportant, and unnoticed man who embarks on a great journey into the great unknown with nothing but nature and self confidence to guide him. The relative size of the man and the sun in comparison to the building, is quite interesting. Something as important and as powerful as the sun seems so tiny and unimportant, yet it is what makes life possible. Before the light hits the ground, it reveals a cloud of sand covering the entire ground, I see this as a metaphor explaining than on whichever journey you take, no matter which route you take to reach it, there will be some obstacles and difficulties you, the journeyer, will have to face and overcome to reach the big sunshine in the end.