Pingere cum luci, to paint with light...

Artists use different mediums to share their passion. Dancers use their bodies, moving around to express different ideas, painters use paints and brushes to make drawings on a canvas, sculptors can use different materials to carve out shapes, musicians use their instruments to make music, to move people, to take them through a range of emotions. A photographer uses his camera to shape light. Using the many different settings available to him, a photographer can manipulate light, allowing bright sunlight to trickle in through the aperture, or coaxing in every photon from a dark room, taking a quick shot of a running child, or taking his time to capture a flowing stream. That is pingere cum luci, painting with light.

On this blog, I will post pictures that I take, as well as my thoughts and reflections on my shots. Thank you so much for taking the time to look at, enjoy and comment on my work. I hope that, by reading my blog, you will come to appreciate photography as much as I do and, who knows, maybe even pick up a camera yourself.

-Karine Topalian

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Midnight Sun

On March 19th, 2011, there was a full moon in the night sky, over Montreal. Beautiful, bright, and just waiting to be photographed. So, I took my camera and, after trying for a few minutes, finally got the perfect settings. Here is the result.


After this, I can't wait to do more night-time shots, hopefully including some really amazing things, like meteor showers, eclipses, and, eventually (hopefully!), Aurora borealis (the much-admired Northern Lights). I even have a list of a few experiments that I would like to try, some involving telescopes, others trips to the foresty areas of northern Quebec, where electrical lights are few, and where the nights sky shines bright with a beauty unequalled by anything that you can see from the city.
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