The giants in the hills were almost entirely a matter of light, both the time of year and the time of day. I have flown over that same bit of countryside dozens of times and never seen the same sight again.Here's another case of figure and ground in which the shadow is just as important a part of the picture as the light.

There 's something very appealing about the rhythm of the gaps between the leaves. For my view, I find my mind switches from one emphasis to another, the leaves, then the gap between the leaves. Though I'm tempted by the idea that the gap matters the most, it is both that count. In really good piano performance, the gaps between the notes matter just as much as the notes themselves. No silence, no music; no shadow, no light.