I have been a huge fan of light painting photography since the day I bought my first DSLR camera. Playing with light actually started my photography road. Actually, not just light painting, all kinds of photos are highly related to light, every setting you did on your camera(if you do the settings manually) is to adjust how bright or how dark you want the photo to be. When I saw this task of setting myself to notice something, light was the first thing came to my mind. Since I’m so interested in photography and lighting happens to be a very important part of it, why not set myself to notice natural lighting everyday.

The decision was made and now I just need to make myself to start noticing something I used to ignore when I’m not taking photos. So where does natural light comes from? Ofcourse it’s the sun. So I decided to notice how the natural lighting looks during different time periods of the sunset.

In the beginning I found it quite difficult to notice it because I am not used to it. There were two days when I realize I’m suppose to notice it, it was already 8pm. John Mason mentioned this in his book “If you suddenly say to yourself ‘Tomorrow I shall notice…..’, the decision to notice in the future can at best facilitate noticing. You can not guarantee it. Disciplined noticing is really about making the effort.” I can’t agree more to it. So I started setting alarms and memos each day to remind myself don’t forget to check out the sunset today. Before I recorded anything I asked myself, what if I use the exact same settings on the camera and take a photo of the sunset each day but at different time periods, how will the photos look.

Then I got myself starting to  notice how the light changes everyday.