"Light, color and gesture" is an expression made famous by Jay Maisel, who's one of my favourite photographers. I always interpreted it to mean that a good photo has one of these, a very good one has two, and a great one has three. It makes a certain sense.

There's been some quite nice light here over the last week, so that part was taken care of. Colour and gesture are up to the photographer to find and use appropriately.

As usual, this is a mix of X100s and DP3 Merrill with the Merrill getting the lion's share.

"Light" first

Now on to "colo(u)r" (that's my attempt at SEO). Japan in autumn is a riot of colour, so this is the easiest of the three to get.

That leaves gesture, which is nowhere near as clear-cut. Having watched Jay Maisel on three different Scott Kelby videos, I'm starting to get some idea of what he means by it, but it's a terribly vague concept. Still, here's my take on it, illustrated mainly by birds.

Thanks for looking! Still waiting on my b/w film scans, so they should be along in a while.