Photography is all about light, even the word itself spells it out. Great light trumps all other technical elements in a picture. Some spend years crafting light in studios, others rise before the dawn to hike to the perfect place for the perfect light, others bounce it around with reflector panels and cooking foil. Wherever it came from, however it was bent to your will, it is the light that made the picture.

The second contest in our 2012 series brings us face to face with the very thing that makes or breaks our pictures: light. What we want from you is something from your travels that shows us light in all its glory.

Here is the easy part: all you need to do is upload your photo to our Facebook page or share a link to it with us. Then share a little bit about the image with us. What made you use light the way you did? Is it the kind of light you normally work in? Or, was it something new for you?