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Garrett Millar: This is the interior of the dome of St. Peter's looking up from floor.

Jeff Woodward: This photo was taken on Sunday August 28th in an antique Trolley car atop the High Level Bridge in Edmonton AB. The subject is my fiancee Jen.

Garrett Millar: This is the main or primary spire of this church that extends upward from the main altar.

Ainsley Kling photo: Table Flowers - Light from an the sunset hits on the flowers on my dining room table.

Melissa Debren photo: Untitled - Self portrait using only the light coming through the window. No editing, just used the black and white feature on the camera.

Barry Hicks photo: Window Light Category - Old House in Kings Landing New Brunswick. Tourist attraction to reenact life in the early days of Canada. Taken several years afo while on vacation

Pat Marchen photo: Hally's Silhouette - Hally shows off her fine, feline figure as the sun falls on a summer evening.

Michael Bearden photo: Taken August 31st with Canon T3i - On an overcast Day in Iqaluit Light shining through closed blinds to illuminate the last Orchid.
ISO 100 1 sec with f/5.6 Manual

Ed Burden photo: Window Light - 2011/08/31: A moment of serenity at the University of Toronto the week before classes start.

Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: Warehouse - I took this photo today of Canada Hair Cloth Building. It was once a triving business. The front of the building faced the old Welland Canal. This photo has a lot of mystery to it.

Peter Pinfold photo: Early morning light
- Morning light shining on a form for making rubber gloves. Aug. 28,2011, ISO 320, f 16, 125th.

ian mcleod photo: stained light - stained glass windows in an ontario church built in the late 1800's

Melissa Debren photo: Tessa - My favourite portrait subject, Tessa. Taken at home on a sunny in December.

ian mcleod photo: wintertime swim - the girls enjoying a balmy indoor swim in the midst of another great lakes winter

T.Bennett Finley photo: Sarah At the Window - A photo by window light-5year girl sits looking out the window at passers by

Craig Pelzer photo: Grand Hotel - Interior of the Hotel Grande Palais in Cancun, Mexico ; December 2010

Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: Church Flowers - I photographed this shot inside the smallest church. Backlighting created a soft peaceful feel.

Larry C. Rideout photo: Skylight - Photo taken Aug. 29/11 at the Distrillary District using light from the skylight.

Melissa Debren photo: Sunshine - Out 5 year old Vizsla loves the heat from the sun through the window.

Glenn Kletke photo: Golden Wooden Shoes - This a photo of a pair of wooden clogs in the sunlit window of a souvenir shop in a small Dutch town.

Jenn Vibert photo: Is that a mouse? - My cat Kiri is distracted by a noise in the late afternoon sunshine at the cottage.

Jeff Gilliard photo: Barcelon Dining Room - Taken in 2005 while in Barcelona, I wandered in to an interesting restaurant that was closed, but the staff let me in.The vase and it's shadow was a magic moment. Luck to be there at that time of day.

Donnie Cameron photo: Window Light - Sunlight through the blind. Aug. 31, 2011

David Maltby photo: Early winter morning - Break from early morning reading

Glenn Kletke photo: Dancing On The Palace Floor - Taken on a June morning, this is a photo of a toddler who dashed from his parents to enjoy the floor of the grand ballroom in Catherine's Palace near St. Petersburg, Russia.

Gerald McLarty photo: soaring light - inside the new Oslo Norway opera house taken in May 2011

Nikolai Malykhin photo: New day - Picture was taken in our apartment last week

Beth Boudreau photo: Basking in the sun - Lois taking a nap basking in the low winter sun of February.

Craig Pelzer photo: Afternoon shadows - The interior wall of the auditorium at Laurier University which hosted my daughter's commencement, June 2011.

Larry C. Rideout photo: Skylight - Larry C. Rideout: Taken Aug. 29/11 at the Distillery District in Toronto.

Milena Petrovic photo: Stay, Sunshine - Meet Lola--my pomeranian who refused to let me out of my bed in Toronto last week. She succeeded as I grabbed my camera and took pictures of her inbetween cuddles. Canon 50D, 50mm lens f1.8.

Bob Sherman: Cupboard doors in my kitchen, lit by morning light coming through sliding doors, March 27/11.

Theresa Forte: This Granville Island florist is bathed in beautiful spring light as she arranges a pretty bouquet.
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, April 2011. Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4 lens.

Jim Shaw: Street Lamp Light Illuminate a Hand Gesture Through A Car Window.

James Lazar: The glass flower skylight, located in the lobby of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Photo taken January 2011.

Theresa Forte: A touching moment between my grandson Rocco and his mom - soft light from a skylight makes this picture. Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4 lens, sitting in a restaurant on Bowen Island, BC.

Johanne Pasion: This is our cat Ginger who loves basking in the sunlight.

Linda Sangwine: Taken in August 2011

Kevin Hardy: This is my best buddy, William - The Big Shooter, sitting under a La Hoya hanging plant and staring out the front window.

ruth krahn: summer reading at the cabin

Craig Pelzer: The second floor of the town hall in Coburg Ontario, taken August 2011.

Craig Pelzer: Entering Canada's National Gallery, Ottawa, August 2011.

Theresa Forte: Soft, natural light poured in through the windows in this large hall in Fort Townsend in Washington State. My granddaughter Ruby was very pleased with her clay creation. Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4 lens.

Randy Hamilton: This photo was taken August 28 with the mid morning sun shining through a south window on my barn. The aperature was F11 at 1/3 of a second exposure.

Bob Sherman: A room screen/divider lit by light coming through the window in my friend's house in Framingham, MA. October 8. 2010.

Malcolm Cross: Taken with iPhone 3 in morning light through door window.

Craig Pelzer: Swimming at the West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alberta; August 2006.

ruth krahn: two kerosene lamps sitting on a table, at the cabin

James Lazar: Dinosaur bones at the Royal Ontario Museum. Photo taken July 2011.

Drew K. Allen: Shot at 0730 with curtains mostly drawn using Nikon D7000 with 35mm F1:1.8 lens; ISO 6400; F4.5; 1/13 s

Susan Georgette: This loveliest of marble sculptures - the ode to being in love with love June 9, 2011 - Canon 5D Mark II - 1/4, F8, ISO 800 (last digit in postl code is 7)

susan georgette: My very first trip to Paris and the Louvre this summer - June 9, 2011. This magnificent sculpture that speaks to man's most noble ideas. Taken with my Canon 5D Mark II - 1/4, F8, ISO 800.

Jennifer Hannam: Our son playing Dad's guitar on a sunny morning at the cottage - August 2011.

Bob Sherman: A patch of evening light reflected off a window of the house opposite, onto implements at the top of the stairs to my basement. July 29, 2011.

Frederic Jon Mercnik: This pboto was taken inside Brocks Monument looking straight down using window light to illuminate the stairs

Jamie Kite: My mothers guitar waits to be played. Early spring sunlight.

James Lazar: Ceiling of Parliament Building in Ottawa lit by high windows. Photo taken July 2011.

Johanne Pasion: This is our cat Cosmo enjoying a moment in our living room in the dappled sunlight

Theresa Forte: This Granville Island florist is bathed in beautiful spring light as she arranges a pretty bouquet.
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, April 2011. Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4 lens.

Linda Sangwine: Taken in 2008

Rachel Lambe: I thought at first this picture was rather funny - all the peaches lined up...once I saw it I really rather liked how it turned out. Not artsy but neat.

Bob Sherman: A facial tissue lit by morning light shining through my kitchen window, with shadows on it from the window frame and a house plant. April 30, 2011.

Jim Shaw: Soft Morning Light Illuminates A Streetcar Opperator On The Queen St Line, Toronto.

Craig Pelzer: Taken at the Blue Lagoon restaurant Iceland, April 2011.

anami naths: Afternoon light through stained glass window in old church at Roche Harbour, San Juan Islands.

Linda Sangwine: Taken in November 2008

Mavis Fung: Taken at the Lang Pioneer Village in Keene, Ontario in July 2011.

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you are at home."

Neha Sharma: Picture taken on June 19, 2011 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Bob Sherman: Leaves of a house plant, illuminated by morning light in my kitchen, April 17, 2011. 1/200s, f5.0, 109mm focal length on a 55-250 zoom lens.

J. Edward Hurley: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cigarette and holder on a parlour table in the family cottage on Campobello Island, New Brunswick - a large picture window casts the bay area light.

Amy C. Hurley: Taken in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, in June of 2008. I was travelling Europe as a Pathfinder (Girl Guide) and snapped it.

Kathy Belford: Taken at our hotel in Dublin on a rare sunny day. the light from the front windw made these chairs more regal than they already were. f3.6 iso 200 1/100sec.

Susan Declerck: This Buddha welcomes visitors to Shanti Yoga Retreat on Wolfe Island across from Kingston, Ontario.

Daniel Brunton: The people are gone but the garden flourishes

Marie Ang: Appreciating the illumination in a construction site paused during Ramadan, Nablus City

Kathy Belford: Taken Dec 2010, in Monte Verde - Costa Rica the lunch tables just set up. no lights other than the light from the window. f4.2 ISO200 1/125

Margaret Zubert: I visited my cousin in Alaska a couple of summers ago. The living room had multiple windows on two sides in order to take advantage of the magnificent view and the long hours of summer sunshine.

richard wright: A picture that I think captures in an image Jack Layton's passing and the fledgeling promise of the party (NDP) he left, still vulnerable but with life and potential rooted in his tremendous effort.

Jamie-Lou Ferguson: The morning light is low enough to come in the kitchen window in Feb and set everything a glow.

Mark Wise: Taken on a bus in Nicaragua in August 2011, showing one of the many volcanoes through the window, and Mother and child inside the bus.

Daniel Brunton: It was easy to appreciate how such soft natural light filtering through ten century old columns makes Westminister Abbey such a spiritual place

Geoff Sanderson: An impromptu snapshot of our rescue cat Sprite enjoying the early morning sunshine through the window in August, 2006, just before we headed out to enjoy a beautiful summer's day in Victoria, BC.

Marie Ang: Appreciating a quiet moment in dusty, tourist filled St Peter's, Vatican

Christine Ritchie: Terra Cotta figures illuminated by skylights

Marie Ang: Sunlight creeps through to the ceiling of a construction site, Nablus City, Palestine

George Douglas Oliver: Claymore stands patiently as Margaret readies him for dressage practice.
Photo taken in Invermere, BC, at 4pm August 21, 2011.

An office display for the Calgary Stampede July 2011, in the lobby with the full light from the windows streaming in. f4.5 iso 500 1/20s.

Daniel Brunton: German machine gunners mowed down Canadian boys mere metres away through this tiny window until the madness of Vimy Ridge was finally over

Kathy Belford: This was taken in the a.m. from a west window, in April of 2011. The cats love to sun themselves on the piano and take turns sneaking up on one another to get the best spot.
Nikon D90 f3.4 ISO200 1/25

Susan Declerck: This is one of many lovely windows at Shanti Retreat on Wolfe Island through which the light flows.

Mima Kapches: Sun strafes through windows at the cottage, August 26, 2011, Lake Muskoka.

Amy C. Hurley: Taken in the Louvre Museum in Paris in June of 2008. I was travelling Europe as a Pathfinder (Girl Guides for 15 year olds) and snapped it. What an incredible place.

Kathy Belford: Taken May 2011 in the Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo, light only by the wun coming in through the conservatory. Nikon D90 f5.6, iso 160, 1/1000s

Gurinder Brar: Sunlight through the oculus at the Pantheon, Rome, Italy

D Panagiotoglou: Window light with shadow cast by blinds

Christopher Gilliatt: Photographed Nov 5, 2010, I was with a charity Hearts & Hands installing stoves in local Maya homes. The natural lighting throughout the home was memorable.

Dean Jorgensen: I was staying at a hotel in Dakar, Senegal that left treats in the room for me every day. One day I came back from work to find a raspberry macaron that looked just too delicious to eat.

Joyce Crago: This picture was taken Wednesday, August 24th using only natural light.

Tiana Pfeifer: My Daughter licking her plate after icecream cake.

Kathryn Gullason: Light through the window of a landing of an apartment in Stockholm, Sweden.

Janet Campbell: Afternoon light filtering through the woodwork of our rocking chair. It was amazing how it focused on the chair. This photo was taken in the late 1990's and I have always loved it.

Chris Yu: Photo taken 08/27/2011. Orchids backlit by morning sunlight. Rotated 90 degrees.

Carol Tomany: This photo was taken August 27, 2011. It's the reflection of sunlight shining through a south window onto a wooden floor. I made one crop.

Keith Edwards: A Huichol Indian inside a shop in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. A flash would have bleached out the features of his face and the rich colours of the tapestry in the background

Kathryn Gullason: A statue at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden, is bathed in light.