That is a photo, but it's a photo of the shadow KC cast as she sat in the front window. I didn't have time to grab the tripod so it was underexposed, hence the noise from altering levels and sharpening in PhotoShop. I'd prefer it sharp, I think, but I like it well enough this way.

Although I only ended up with four I like, I made more than sixty images of this lunch area where I work. I like the top image best, and it's the closest to what I had in mind when I started.

I have something of an obsession with sunlight.

I'm often bored waiting for the bus.

It's usually dark when I leave work, so I made much of this sunlight.

I'll probably continue to post self-portraits every now and then; it'll be interesting to watch me age. Interesting to me, I mean. What, you thought I did this for other people to read?

(Five brownie points to the first commenter to explain the title.)

Edward Hopper once said that all he ever really wanted to paint was sunlight on a wall, a comment that affected me powerfully when I first read it and has remained with me ever since. I think of it often, particularly when I see something simple and beautiful. This is sunlight in the corridor at work.

(Amanda: the unaltered originals of those shots, and a couple of others, are here. Apart from cropping and resizing, the only things I did to the smaller versions above was sharpened them slightly and altered the levels a little. If you don't have the requisite software I'll be happy to make whatever alterations you want to the larger versions.)

Phooey. The full image is too busy, even after I deliberately lost a lot of shadow detail, but the cropped version is oddly proportioned and spoiled by that burned-out area on the wall.

(The top image is a humongous file because I wanted to avoid compression artefacts; don't look too closely at the gazania either!)