Daytime Ascent
By: Gustav Hoiland
Category: architecture
| Aperture: | f/8 |
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| Focal Length: | 50mm |
| ISO: | 400 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
Whenever I think about light waves, the … I don’t know, what, billion of literal beams of energy… (trillions? petascale? waaaay beyond that?)… that’s three ellipses in one sentence. That’s how befuddled I get thinking about the presence, nay, existence, of light. And what the world would look like, so to speak, without it.
And that energy that’s lighting up these little strips of stair metal, that came from the sun. From such a distance that human-based measurements don’t even make sense. The sun is so far away that we can’t even relate to it. Can’t relate in any real way to whatever the figure is.
And then I think about the few times that I’ve been in complete darkness. Not like “whoa it’s really dark in here” dark, but like… so dark there just ain’t no chance of light even being a possibility even after one’s eyes have fully adjusted (atrophied?). Last time was a couple years ago, a hundred feet underground in a South Dakota cave I think.
Grounding oneself.
Gustav Hoiland 
love it !!