Night Photography From Goblin (and its my 100th Post!!!)

I have always loved the solitude that the night offers the world. In the summer, I can sit in the backyard and listen to the bubble of our waterfall, or stay up late and night and look at the stars... I can go running at night, or I can stay up late at night by the fire in the middle of winter... no matter where I am or what I am doing though, there is something in the air at night that makes me want to be alone and try to unravel the mysteries around me. This is a fitting subject and mood for my 100th post.  The solitude of night offers something different to everyone, but to me, it offers a clear mind and a clearer path. There is so much less in the way at night, no noise, no light, no people, no things... just me and my mind...  Photography does this for me to, it allows me to focus on a subject and as I compose a shot, I consciously think about the entirety of the viewfinder, is there a twig in the way here, do I like this tree, do I like this angle?  Once I can focus on what really matters, because what is outside of the view finder doesn't really matter, but sometimes it takes a camera to remind me to focus on what is in the viewfinder because in the end, the world is what it is and all we can change is our perspective.  

These photographs resemble that line of thinking, that we can only choose what and how we see, the world is not going to change for us. The photo above is an excellent example of choosing what we see, and how night can make things clearer. By blacking out everything but the cloud and the sky, I show what actually matters in the photograph, the star in the upper right.