Making the Absolute Most of Light
Of all the weapons in the artist arsenal nothing is more powerful in grabbing attention than light. We can use it many ways—as sudden blasts, as shafts, as slow drifts—but no matter what, we know it stops people dead in their tracks!
Albert Bierstadt, from the 19th-century Hudson River School, was one of the great exponents of energizing the grand landscape with shafts of light—almost to the lofty point of biblical proportions! But there’s no doubt he knew what he was doing, and had mastered the process.
I’ll do something a lot simpler, but just as effective in its own small way. Two figures in an open estuary setting. Maybe throw in a few birds riding the breeze to develop the narrative.