THE SKY, LIGHT, PHOTOGRAPHY

The sky in Los Angeles has been incredible the past couple of days. The bright white to black gradation of cloud-cover resembles the light contrast in some of my favorite Robert Frank photographs. What is it about black and white photographs, like the slow movement of clouds, that makes you stop and wonder how light or people got here to begin with. How did this cowboy get to this street corner, how do the clouds on a rainy day flicker light and shadows in and out of my window? How did this all become so personal? The sun certainly does not function for just us. Though it feeds us and helps us get around, it is the source of energy for everything else on this planet--of which we are a very minute part. People arose and evolved from an unbelievably large number of exact biological steps--if any were missing, or changed in any way, humans would be much different. So, as you look into the face of an uncertain day--it is sometimes useful to realize that no matter how abstruse the world might seem, there is a simplicity and objectivity to our existence.