Seasonal Light

The special light of the Fall season reveals the
subtle colors, textures, and shapes of nature.

Perhaps this adaptation from Helmut Lachenmann about the Orchestral works of
Gustav Mahler defines quite succinctly, the essence of photographic tonal interpretation.
I've taken the liberty of exchanging the references to sound with tonality, as it relates to photography:

"We still love and seek beauty, each in our own way"
"The Chances for beauty in exposures today"

"But it is precisely our love of the unbroken which betrays our desperate longing for an
intact world when we are faced by one that is deeply disrupted, both externally and internally.
Today's photographer cannot satisfy this longing by appeasing it with some sort of shimmering
aesthetic fata morgana... Only when we intervene in our habitual processes of perception,
only then will photography as a perceptual process call attention to itself, to its malleability -
only then will the act of viewing and, with it, the person himself be moved."

Are you rendering the tonality of your images with thought and purpose?
Or

Are you making your images with all of the automation contained in the
algorithms of today's high tech digital cameras?

May I suggest that you place your camera in full manual mode.
Set the metering to spot, and render your own tonality while keeping
in mind the essence of the moment; how and what you feel. 

Your camera settings become your experience, your thoughts.

You decide how to render reality.

 Beach Sand

All Images captured with the Lumix GF-1 with 20mm F1.7 Lens.

@ 2011 Photo Pro - Jeffrey P. Hopp