Light Show

See something cool? Not sure what it is? Shoot first, figure it out later.

- Barry Tanenbaum

IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that this particular light display happens frequently in a particular Mission Viejo, California, house. It’s also very likely it attracts no attention.But on a certain April day in 2016, G. Dan Mitchell was in the house, and that made all the difference.

Mitchell and his wife were visiting their daughter and son-in-law. The family was in the living room when he noticed that the light hitting the patio door was putting on a colorful show. “With a camera in my hand, I start to see differently,” Mitchell writes at this image’s Flickr page, “and things that would otherwise often escape my notice start to catch my attention…”