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Hi, I'm Stuart Shepard, this is Stoplight.
What are ya lookin' at?
Just some pictures my wife and I took. You wanna see?
Wow, is that Pikes Peak?
Uh-huh. You know they say photography is all about light and shadow. See how the Peak looks at sunrise,
with all those pink clouds above the snowcap? And then at sunset, the mountain's in silhouette
and crowned with orange and yellow.
That's beautiful.
Thanks! With enough light, you can freeze a running little boy in midair or a World War II Navy
plane on a low level fly-by.
You even stopped the propeller.
But lately I got thinking: Anybody can take pictures with lots of light. So, I've been
experimenting with night photography. Everybody starts out by shooting something bright like
the full moon -- or 4th of July fireworks.
Ooo, aahh.
But then I stepped it up and got this 30-second exposure -- that long white streak is the
International Space Station moving against the stars.
And here's a long exposure of Pikes Peak lit only by the full moon.
It almost looks like daylight -- except you can see the stars.
And this was taken at midnight after some Arctic Air had settled in. The pillars of
light are from little flat ice crystals reflecting the streetlights below.
That's like a photographic version of the verse in Philippians -- It calls us "children of
God, above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear
as lights in the world."
Here's what I find fascinating -- we often hear people say things are worse now than
they've ever been -- except when was that verse written that you just quoted?
New Testament times.
And it's actually quoting Deuteronomy, which would be...
Old Testament Times -- Which means the world has nearly always been dark.
And that means today is your time to shine -- Somebody might even take your picture.