In photography, light and shadows many times create images. In this contrast I call "Shadowlamp", I found the combination striking. I had been walking on the High Street of the old woolen town of Chipping Campden, a place where many of my past images in Britain have been composed. It was late on a January afternoon and the clouds had been breaking up toward the end of the day, letting stray light pass through them. As I approached this wonderful old lamp that is embedded in the stone, the sun popped through the cloud, giving what had been a rather dreary image a sudden jolt of beauty. The stone literally burst open with golden color and the shadow cast by the old lamp was sprawled almost four feet across the face of the wall. Using my 135 mm lens from the middle of the street, I created the image as you see it, briefly capturing the composition and light in a wonderful and momentary inspiration.