Week #2 - Nature's Gobo

This afternoon, as I was wondering what I would write about for my first blog, I happened across something beautiful that only the sun could produce. It was a gloomy, rainy day today, so when a tint of orange encroached into my apartment through the blinds of the sliding glass door I couldn’t help but peek outside. I was so glad that I did.

I live in an apartment on the second story, so the little balcony outside is at about the same height as the tops of some neighboring trees. When the sunlight led me outside I noticed the most beautiful design on the stucco wall created by light. The sun was shining in the trees in such a way that the leaves created a marvelous shadow on the wall. It struck me so much because it looked almost exactly like a gobo that was used in a show I was in a couple of years ago. It made me look back and appreciate the reality of that lighting design for that show even more than I did at the time, but I also just loved how beautiful this shadow looked. I was truly stunned at how light in nature can be so marvelous.