Strictly speaking, the idiomatic phrase "trip the light fantastic" means to dance, or to move in a pattern.  It dates back to a poem by John Milton in 1632. I’ve adopted this phrase to refer to something different and personally resonant: Tripping the camera shutter, and being fortunate enough to capture the light in such a way as to create a compelling image. It's an almost magical confluence of light, imagination, craft, and being in the right place at the right time...camera at the ready.
 
And those little photons--the energetic packets (or waves if you prefer) of light--are so much more than dancing particles. With a bit of imagination they become swirling marvels of illumination cavorting around us.  It falls to the photographer to try and call out the steps of the dance that will reward him or her with something beautiful, self-satisfying, or even whimsical.
 
It's catching a glimpse of the fantastic in the seemingly ordinary.
 
And, better yet, without the need for a New York sidewalk.

Paul S. Hoffman




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