Part 2 opens at a wedding party in the Exumas. Bob Taylor caught sisters dancing under warm incandescent light while a little boy watches from the shadows. Light, gesture, and color, all in one frame.
“Always take your camera. It’s very hard to shoot without one.”
– Jay Maisel
This half covers a lot of ground. Lorikeets wrestling over a rain gutter. A storm building over Capitol Lake in Olympia. An old man on the Fourth of July in Colorado Springs, 1978. Ruth Grindrod’s Malin Head, at the top of Ireland.
Jay told photographers to go out empty and let the world show up. Plenty of you did that this month. Thank you for sharing your work with us, and keep it coming.
Enjoy the issue.
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Bob Taylor
A wedding party on a tiny, remote island in the Exumas. Warm incandescent light and splashes of color frame a memorable image of sisters dancing together like nobody’s watching.
I made this photograph a few years ago. Whenever I run across it, I tend to linger a while and recollect. Old Compass Cay Marina, weathered from years of salt air and the harsh Bahamian sun, boat names scrawled in bright paint across scraps of driftwood and nailed to the rafters, from the shadows, a little boy watching the sisters dance.
This was the party after the wedding’s Junkanoo celebration; it was a good night.
Jim Powers
Attached are two photos from NYC for your consideration. One captures a casual conversation, the other is a mix of crisscrossing escalators, lighting and reflections, and a figure.
Frank Winters
Here’s my light, gesture and color submission. The gesture is nature about to storm over Capitol Lake in Olympia, Washington.
Ruth Grindrod
Award winning landscape photography
Dave Barton
This colourful fellow seems to enjoy making a provocative gesture.
Hans Schmitt
A slice of time at the Kayak Freestyle Championships.
Christopher Hall
Light, gesture and color . . . . . going out empty . . . . . Jay was amazing.
Color!
iPhone 17 Pro Max
Wall mural inside ’Tacos Amor’ (NuLu market place) at 826 E. Main Street, Louisville, KY
08-17-2026
The food was excellent!
Street Tacos (Carne Asada and Chorizo)
Hubert Steve Cole
Sunrise in Rowleys Bay Door County WI and a man seeking to catch a small mouth bass.
Clifford Ando
A young participant marching during the annual Santa Fe, NM Desfile de los Ninos {aka Pet Parade}.
Alan Johnston
A straight-arm mush in technicolor. Two Rainbow Lorikeets tussling over the coveted end of a water-filled rain gutter. Taken a few days ago.
Michael Vervier
My mailbox as seen from my front door during a snow storm.
Paul Kitcatt
Beat Hotz
The first one is from the Dolomites in Italy at early dawn and the second one is from a spindle tree at Sunset home in Zug, Switzerland.
Matt Kaarma
At the check in, bathed in golden light the girl glows like an Edward Hopper creation.
Alan Gaynor
Brice Harbert
My submission for September, Light, Gesture, and Color.
Nancy Jacob
“Wind Over Water” North of KTDN
The wind is the gesture.
Michael Vervier
A seagull at sunrise.
Clifford Ando
Skateboarder in a dedicated skate park on London’s Southbank.
Hans Schmitt
Old Man, 4th of July, 1978; Colorado Springs
October Show & Tell: The Gap
The Space Between. Photograph a gap: between people, objects, buildings, generations, expectations, or moments. Show us the gap.
Email us your best image and a short statement about the moment by October 31. Favorites may be featured in the newsletter, on luminous-landscape.com, and on our YouTube channel.
Bob Taylor
Old Compass Cay Marina, Compass Cay, Exuma, The Bahamas
Jim Powers
New York City
Jim Powers
New York City
Frank Winters
Ruth Grindrod
Malin Head, Malin, Ireland
Dave Barton
Hans Schmitt
Christopher Hall
Tacos D Amor, NuLu, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Christopher Hall
Tacos D Amor, NuLu, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Hubert Steve Cole
Rowleys Bay, Door County, WI
Clifford Ando
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Alan Johnston
Michael Vervier
Paul Kitcatt
Beat Hotz
Dolomites, Italy and Zug, Switzerland.
Beat Hotz
Dolomites, Italy and Zug, Switzerland.
Matt Kaarma
Alan Gaynor
Alan Gaynor
Brice Harbert
Nancy Jacob
North of KTDN
Michael Vervier
Clifford Ando
London
Hans Schmitt
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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