Passing light

On her first day of work, a young apprentice joined her mentor to review ten images.

The main object in the images was the same, but each gave an additional information the previous one lacked. What each revealed was a little different.

Intrigued, the apprentice asked why this has happened.

“Oh, it’s the light. What we see isn’t the thing itself, but the light falling on it,” the mentor replied.

Photographers and painters know this and use it in creating magic. Physicists and product designers use this knowledge to influence our perception of the world.

Everyone else can too, when we decide on the quality of light we choose to let through. Figuratively and literally.