Shadows of Scaffolds
The word photography in English comes from the Greek where it means registration of light, but the camera sensor registers the darkness just as well, because what is darkness if not the unlit side of the Earth, which is shadow, which is black. In each picture there is some level of contrast, and contrast is defined as the difference between the brightest pixel and the darkest pixel and what is the darkest if not a representative of the night. The above photograph has more shade than light, and therefore more night than light, but it seems that the eye is conditioned to fall in love at first sight with the bright. Romantically the preference of light over darkness is love at first sight, scientifically it is a conditioning, a habit, morally it is discrimination.
