ABSTRACT
The real difference between the day’s first glimpse of sunshine and its last is that, unless you’ve been up watching from the same spot day after day, there’s a mystery about where it will strike. By complete contrast, the last rays of the sun move across the land in a very predictable way. To me, this sums up nicely the relationship between two events that are indistinguishable to anyone looking at an image, but are totally different experiences to the person doing the shooting. And they need very different working methods to capture them, hence the way I’ve split them here-one in the previous section, because you wait and plan for the falling sun, the other here, leading this section on chasing light. Capturing the first strike of sunlight in the day in a place you’re visiting for the first time is a very challenging proposition, and you need the reactions of a street photographer.
