The ghost of twitter past?

Shooting own shadow by the abandoned docks in Hvítanes in Hvalfjörður, SW-Iceland.

August 15th 2006

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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Shadow play in the window of the Writer's Stop pastry shop near the Streets of America in Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Disney's Hollywood Studios | Streets of America | Writer's Stop

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A male Black Darter casts its shadow on the boardwalk

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Since gaining my new love for medium format photographs, I'm going through my archives and looking for old pictures that would look good square. Enjoy!

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Shadow in Photography exposition

shadows

I'm not sure if this qualifies as an abstract or not, or even if it is macro enough or not, but I'll post it to the group and see what happens. It's shadows of small grass seed, on my kitchen ceiling, enhanced a bit in PSE11. The texture is from the paint finish, which was an unexpected bonus.

Macro Mondays - Abstract in macro

Paris, France, 2022

A shot from the streets around the incredible Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Yep it's a shot of random people walking down the road in to the sun! But I loved the shadows and the way the sun was lighting the road and pavement.

Family: Aeshnidae. Species: Aeshna umbrosa (Walker, 1908). (Salem, MA)

Shadows and Light

Every picture has its shadows

And it has some source of light

Blindness blindness and sight

The perils of benefactors

The blessings of parasites

Blindness blindness and sight

Threatened by all things

Devil of cruelty

Drawn to all things

Devil of delight

Mythical devil of the ever-present laws

Governing blindness blindness and sight

Wrong and right

~Joni Mitchell

Listen to the song here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJlOMxs1dc

Cloud Shadows often make a cool effect with sunsets!

a trio of bike cops pause to chat in the setting sun...

Shadows and Pedestrian, captured on a photo walk with my friend Chad this Saturday.

Camera: Sony A7S II

Lens: Lensbaby Burnside 35

Happy with each other.

Liam and Shadow

Lublin, Poland

In the Shadow Prison

Chair and Shadow are One

Just wandering, these hand prints and shadows caught my eye, I liked the way the shadow seems to make another hand.

Rolleiflex 3.5e

Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5

Ilford HP5 plus

13 and a half minutes in Rodinal 50:1

I was sure I can never have the time to do deliberate photographic studies, let alone - on a predefined subject and with a deadline. November sunshine proved me wrong: I had 5 minutes, the subject was 'shadows' and I saw them, in my own sitting room and garden. Next day I even found time to crop and clean them a bit, and here they are - for your critique :)

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. -William Shakespeare.

Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M

Lens: Carl Zeiss CF Sonnar 150mm/f4.0

Film: Fuji Velvia 100F

Place: Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan

Date: December, 2015

Kumortuli images are generally ordered well in advance and there a few for off-the-shelf sale. Nowadays, Kumortuli’s clientele has extended to America, Europe and Africa, among the Indian communities living there. In 1989, Durga images made out of shola pith by Amarnath Ghosh were flown to Sweden, Australia, Malaysia and Nigeria. The images weighed only three kilograms each and were ideally suited for air travel.In modern times, Statues and replicas made out of Fiberglass are also being produced and exported to various parts of the country and the world.[12]

In 2006, Kumortuli supplied 12,300 clay deities of goddess Durga. This potter's town supplies images to about 90 countries worldwide with new nations joining the list every year. Many East European countries, where religious ceremonies were previously banned, have started buying images from Kumortuli. A spokesman of Kumartuli Shilpi Sangha (KSS), an association of the craftsmen, said the NRIs of countries like Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia, Austria and Poland, come to Kumortuli to buy images. U.S. based NRIs, including the Bengali Association of Southern California, Bengali Association of Greater Chicago, Dakshini, Sanskriti, Garden State Puja Committee of New Jersey, East Coast Durga Puja Committee of New York, North America Sarbojanin Kalipuja Association of Connecticut[13] come to Kumartuli to select deities to ship to their cities. Additionally, hundreds of agents in Kolkata service NRIs seeking idols from Kumortuli.[14]

In Kolkata, the icon-artisans mostly dwell in poor living conditions. The more popular among them are Mohan Banshi Rudra Pal and his sons Sanatan Rudra Pal and Pradip Rudra Pal, Rakhal Pal, Ganesh Pal, Aloke Sen, Kartik Pal, Kena Pal, who are still reigning figures of Kumortuli and despite the threats from the ‘theme artists’, they are booked by major puja organisers who admire the old school. Women are not lagging behind. Kumortuli boasts of the presence of some 30-odd women-artisans, like Minati Pal, Soma Pal, Kanchi Pal and Chapa Rani Pal. They have been in the business of idol making for a long time.[13] Kumortuli’s own Durga Puja dates back to 1933. The image maker was Gopeswar Pa

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

'Shadows and light...' On Black

'Shadow & chain' On Black

Florence | Italy

Playing with the flash's down in the drains

580exII Full power 50mm zoom triggered by hand to subject left

'Shadow play' On Black

I've been digging through old pictures lately. Somehow I didn't post this one before. So here's Shadow in shadow.