Light Observation #2

My Apartment: Midnight

· 3 tungsten lights (2 overhead fixtures, 1 floor lamp)

o 1 goes out; the sunroom is in shadow

§ Lamp light spills over the threshold (only a little)

· The far corner is ironically lit (there is a turned off lamp there)

o The lamp’s shadow is slightly to the left

o The hall is lit the brightest (newer bulb)

§ Light trickles all the way to the front door

· The door is getting lit from the hall & family room lamp

· The two computers and 1 TV

o The computer lights Anna’s face as she reads

o Caitlin is lit slightly; the duct tape gets more light (she’s packaging books)

§ Her glasses show the screen’s reflection

§ Her legs are lit by the lamp (she’s closest to it)

· My notebook is in her shadow

o I think my right side is partially lit by the lamp

· All the lights converge on the black semi-gloss coffee table

Riegel Rd 6PM

The sun is setting. The tree tops are drinking light--spilling the tiniest drops onto bits of Spanish moss, bark, and (rarest of all) the ground. Sunlight kisses legs, profiles and metal (rims of glasses, bicycles, cars, etc.) No headlights yet. I can see my reflection and that of passerbys in the hood of the white car--as well as the movement on the street and the passing car on the road running perpendicular. The light reflects the brightest off of the metal loading dock in the distance--its doors are painful to look at. I can see the sun a little in between branches of the tree across the street. Its other side is the sole beneficiary of the direct sunlight; my side is engulfed in shadow.