I’ve always been fascinated by light. Whenever I can, I read up and try to understand Feynman diagrams or George Gamow’s ‘The Birth & Death Of The Sun.’ Long ago, we bought laser-pointers and played around with the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction.

Weird.

Painters have to represent light on a 2D surface with geometry, materials and technique. It takes years of experimenting with colors and color-mixing. Most of all, artists have to have some kind of vision.

It can take months to make a single painting…

Photographers ‘find’ instead of ‘make,’ deciding where to stand, and when to click the shutter. If you can’t see it in your mind’s eye, you probably won’t ‘see’ a good photograph.

But, you can always get lucky.

Luck helps.

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