Photons and Wavelengths: how are they related

[EpicDentist]

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I understand that light exists in packets that we call photons and that each photon and each wavelength have a certain amount of energy.

Therefore, if light exists in these packets we call photons, then how are they related to wavelengths? I am looking at the electromagnetic spectrum right now, so basically the visible light portion would be referred to as photons, while the wavelengths simply describe the length of the photons, correct?

Light is in photons, and the wavelengths show the length/energy of the light. I just want to make sure I am not missing something here.

 

[HannibalLecter]

Think of photons getting shot from a cannon somewhere all traveling in the same line of motion. This line of motion has oscillations like the waves described in the electromagnetic spectrum. If we were to get a super electron microscope and magnify the actual wave of say a microwave at a given instant of time we would notice the photons of light are the molecules that make up the wave. Hopefully that makes sense.