I've done a lot of landscape photography with natural light—daytime and nighttime—for the past twenty years. Daylight would look nothing like these. It's easy

I've done a lot of landscape photography with natural light—daytime and nighttime—for the past twenty years. Daylight would look nothing like these. It's easy to underestimate how sophisticated our intuitive subconscious perception of illumination is. We've evolved over millenia to have a really keen sense of different kinds of light and we can tell when things are different even if we aren't sure why.