The RELATIVE ASPECTS of "REALITY" ~ Form, Light & Shadow
How many "real" Sycamore leaves are represented in this image? Consider your response carefully.
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RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
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nice composition, contrast, and use of negative space. that almost sounds like I know wtf I'm talking about, huh?
also, it's the weekend so please remember to vote up this article. thank you...
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I have very few photos with shadows, even less where shadows are at all significant.
This is a photo of shadows of dead lotus leaves in late fall on a still pond. A year or two after I took that photo I saw an almost identical photo in an article about a professional photographer.
Taken at a university campus nearby, a student and her parents in front of the cafeteria. It was actually because of the shadows that I took that photo.
Back in Canada, in a remote area of Ontario where I would sometimes spend a hippie weekend, these shadows cross a logger's road through a forest.
And finally, a view from our smaller balcony on the morning sunrise side.
Clouds - © G. Gam
An incredibly creative concept - makes me think back about lying on my back as a kid with a friend beside me naming the figures the clouds resembled. Joni Mitchell would have loved that image.
Thank you
This photo was taken in 1907 on the Red Lake Ojibwe Rez in Northern MN by Roland Reed. I believe that the black and white with lines and shadows is one of his best photos of which there are hundreds.
A couple of images I took in late Sep of 2020...
A very well-fed deer and an unusual angle view of a bird just taking flight (or landing?),
Home on the range. The ranch that surrounds Stone Creek has cattle outgrazing most days. The photo was taken by a friend and he took it through the screened lanai.
Then there's the phenomena of FORM, SILHOUETTES, REFLECTION and SHADOW!
Each "real" in its own way, but each different in terms of the concept of "time"!
A REFLECTION is ONCE REMOVED from that which it is reflecting.
A SHADOW is the ABSENCE OF ITS SOURCE … the FORM THAT BLOCKS THE LIGHT that CASTS IT.
And the LIGHT one sees ALWAYS TAKES TIME TO GET FROM ITS SOURCE TO THE EYES OF ITS VIEWER.
Consider sunlight for example … the Sun is 93 million miles away, so sunlight takes 8 and 1/3 minutes to get to us, and, additional time to get from any surface from which it's reflected to get to our eyes.
In other words …
Surf Fisherman at sunset, Margate, New Jersey
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Did you add that bird or was in the original photo?
The image is comprised of three separate photographs and one digitally added component.
Arvo...and remember...
Life is full of shadows, but it is the sunshine that makes them..☀️☀️
Shona, I always thought it was what was between the sun and the shadow that made the shadow. It is the Earth that causes the eclipse of the moon - that shadow is not made by the sun. But then if it were not for the sun, there would be no shadow. Maybe only the shadow knows, heh heh heh.
An interesting sky, Stone Creek, Ocala, FL.
Saying thank you and good night.