In the garden we practice letting thoughts, ideas, preferences, desires, even loves, both live and die.  We plant, we pull, we bury.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

I first remember seeing examples of  “painting with light” a few years ago and honestly?  I didn’t really get it.  When a very talented photographer I know recently shared some p.w.l photographs she had come upon, well…I was still not so excited about it.

BUT THEN she shared some of her own experiments with the process and I was smitten.  So on a recent trip I took the Holga and a giant yellow flashlight out on a cold, dark porch to see what I could come up with.

It was verrrry quiet.  And mysterious.  And only a few of the shots I took left anything on the film.  In other words:

I’m hooked.

(Note:  heading out into said darkness with funny taped together camera & a flashlight also really helps to reinforce that crazy brilliant artist image you are trying to project to your family.  Good stuff.)