In this photograph, I am not photographing the light itself as much as I expressing the effect of light on my subjects. I anchor this photograph with the shadows, colors and textures produced by the autumnal morning light in the foreground, which takes up three quarters of the image. The low light comes at the subject from the side and from a low angle, creating a textured blanket of dried golden brown grass that leads the eye out to the red barn itself. By using a 24mm wideangle lens, I add additional sweep to this field of textured grass by taking advantage of that lenses natural barrel distortion, which bends the horizon into a subtle arc echoing the arc of the hill in the background. The subject of this image is, of course, the old red barn. I place it in the upper right hand corner of the frame so it can draw the eye of the viewer all the way through that golden grass. I selected a vantage point that would bring the light from right to left, defining the geometry of the barn itself and given it a sense of dimension. Its rich deep red siding echoes the reds in the grass and creates the focal point of the image, while the black shadow that fills the left hand side of the barn provides an extension of the soft shadows that move across the grass below it. To me, this light creates tones, textures, shadows and colors that speak of timelessness, illuminating a place where nature seems to have produced a continuing cycle of crops for as long as we can remember.