Lights!

I'm not much of a blogger, but the opportunity to write about something so natural and so often manipulated for a chance at a prize is tempting to anyone( thanks to http://www.lightingmajestic.co.uk/ ). I could start things simply with "light makes dark things brighter!" but I would rather not come across as such a simple minded writer. (Which is why I wrote it ironically, duh!)

Anyway, back on topic. Light has been studied by scientists for years, manipulated in many movies to create a wide variety of atmospheres and is the subject of many theories. We all reflect light, everything does. take a green blade of grass, it is reflecting many different colours, all except green which gives it it's colour. It's pretty mind blowing that the one colour something is, just happens to be the colour of light it doesn't reflect. Using this, it is theorised that invisibility may be possible. If all light was reflected off of something, it would be completely unseen. This could mean all those childhood dreams of being the super hero who could turn invisible (or those teen dreams, you know the ones) could in fact be a reality.

The practical uses for light may be more interesting to some though, like how the lack of light in your favourite horror movies scares you to living hell. Using light, or the lack of it, in order to create a tense atmosphere; to play on those night fears, that could be seen as a great power in the hands of the right director.  It's pretty incredible how big of a difference it makes to a movie. Imagine if Pitch Black was not set during darkness, it would kind of eliminate the point of the movie. So three cheers for movie lighting!

And then there's natural phenomena which just cannot be described by words. The northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, a spectrum filling the skies as particles from the sun enter our atmosphere. I don't know what else to say on this, it is just too amazing.

But it must be said, the best thing light does is illuminates the great world around us. And it was a light which helped Frodo keep a giant spider at bay, but I guess that isn't really important. What is important is we open our eyes and see what the light is showing us during our limited time on earth. A wide open world, which we will barely see because we kinda have to go to work and such. Oh well.

Thanks for reading, stay frosty

Frostfyr