Photography (derived from the Greek photos- for "light" and -graphos for "drawing")

Many photographers, and especially aspiring photographers, focus their main attention on their subject, on the composition of their image, the exposure and other technical aspects. But, when you think about it, you're actually photographing light, and, most of the time, that's where I start with my image. Even when conceptualising an image, while I'll be thinking about the setup and the mood, and the location, subject, etc., foremost in my mind is what the light will be.
Being a mostly outdoor, natural light photographer, it is difficult to plan a specific shoot at a specific time. One of two things usually happens: I'll have an image in mind, and wait for the light to be suitable and then dash out to create the photograph, or I'll see that the light is getting delicious and rush out to find a subject to photograph in that light (and some light is just sooo good, any subject is great!)
Almost every morning for the last four and a half years I've seen, from my bed, the warm and happy wake-up sunlight shining through my happy doors onto the wall in my office, and always thought "I need to photograph that light" and just needed a subject to show it off.
The other day a dear friend gave me this beautiful bunch of roses, and, as you know by now, I often like to photograph my appreciation rather than use words, and these were no exception. They were next to my bed, and I saw them when I opened my eyes in the morning (big happy way to wake up - you should try it, even if you buy a bunch for yourself!), and as my eyes drifted across the passage to my office, I knew what I was going to do, and lept out of bed, a lazy lie-in coming a far second to the photo opportunity. (Sunlight moves fast. It may take a whole day to move across the sky, but the sky is hell of a big, but you have to work quickly when the light has a small space to move through.)
Now, I like to call myself a light-sculptor, and enjoy coaxing moods and evoking emotions in my images by tweaking tonal contrast and colour in my Lightroom, but when the light is good, no post-processing is required.
To prove the point, these images were all taken on my cell phone camera and are totally unprocessed, with the exception of the one with just the table and the light, which is an in-camera HDR (high dynamic range) to show the light more as it appeared to my eye, rather than the camera's limited ability to capture extreme light and shadow in the same image.

My doors are a textured glass, and I knew the shadow would be beautiful, and more the subject of the image than the roses themselves.

The light - look around you, indoors and outdoors, and when you see the light, find something to show it off...

The light about 5 minutes later, with the windows now open and more ambient light coming in, flattening the special light.

 so work fast! Or come back, same time, same place, same weather!
Happy lightdrawing!