Spontaneous Moments (#19)

There was a plethora of awe-inspiring photos at boston.com, but the photo that resonated with me the most was this one.

In the photo is a Marrakech traveler riding through the streets in mid-morning. The scene was captured by a cinematographer on the set of ABC's Born To Explore.

The crepuscular ray of sunlight in the photo looks like something out of a dream. The color scheme is rich and warm, the textures and patterns within it enticing, and the use of light. THE USE OF LIGHT. I can't get over it. It's a striking photo. What really caught me was that it was something so ordinary. A very mundane and normal scene was captured as something so much more.
And perhaps that's what I like best about this photo-it's, as the category states in which it won, a spontaneous moment. There's nothing posed or unnatural. It was simply a small moment that someone took the time to notice the beauty in.
I'd love to find out more about the person being photographed. If I could, I would ask him if he was aware of how sublime the moment was. So often, I wonder if the beauty of a moment being photographed is a consciousness shared by the photographer and the person in front of the camera.

Photo Credits to John Barndhardt