Thursday Challenge: Light -

"Christmas Light 2011"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... better to light one candle
than to curse the darkness ..."
- The Christopher Society

Thursday Challenge: Lights -

"Lights"
manipulated digital photograph & digital collage by Mick Mather

"... these lights are so bright.
white lights in the night,
they keep me from sleeping,
but I am still dreaming,
I dream of your smile,
I remember your kiss,
in the light of the night ..."
- Unknown

Smoke 'em if you got 'em - -

"Keeper of the Gurdon Light"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... hovering and blazing with delusive light,
misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way ..."
- John Milton

Thursday Challenge: Golden -

"Golden"
photograph by Mick Mather
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"... a crown, golden in show,
is but a wreath of thorns ..."
- John Milton

Polar lights -

"Reflecting Light From the Northern Sky"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the stars are putting on their glittering belts ...

they throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash

like a great shadow’s last embellishment ..."
- Wallace Stevens

Thursday Challenge: Light -

"Light"
digital photograph by Mick Mather

This week's theme at Thursday Challenge is light. I could swear that I've used this image or a variation of it before but I can't seem to locate where or when. Anyway, it fits rather well here, don't you think?

Moody Monday: Light -

"Tripping the Light Fantastic"
digital collage by Mick Mather

I didn't specifically set out to capture a photograph for this week's Moody Monday - the theme is light - but that's what happened. Straight from the Kodak Z740 to the array of filters and plug-ins here at the Secret Visual Laboratory and, with a little musical inspiration from Bill Laswell and Pete Namlook via Outland 1, a little bit of mystery, romance and adventure was added. This just in!...scores of motorists at a local intersection found themselves out of gas in the middle of a traffic jam. Early reports claim that a mysterious "lost time event" occurred when stranded drivers began to realize that 24 hours had passed in what seemed like a normal 24 second passage of time for the traffic light at that intersection. Details and film at eleven!