Photo: MELISSA FARLOW. Okefenokee swamp 1992. From "Women Photographers of National Geographic." "An alligator lies motionless in swamp water the color of tea by dying vegetation."
The metallic quality of the light on the alligator's skin drew me to the image. It is ominous, pulling out the sickly red hues of the water: an unnaturally metallic reptile in a bed of organic, murky decay.
Photo:KENNETH GARRETT. National Geographic, May 2006. Reenactment of crucifixion, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The light seems like a religious fervor and distorts everything except for the woman's face--the image swims around her experience of the moment. The light has a warm quality, heated, a fire, a passion, a moment that's not in itself, but in someone's head.
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