Plato’s cave of shadows is the most profound and simple statement of the relation of the natural to the spiritual life ever made. Men stand with their backs to the Sun, and they take the shadows cast by it upon the walls of their cavern for realities. The shadows, even, of heavenly realities are so alluring as to provoke ardent desires, but they cannot satisfy us. They mock us with unattainable good, and our natural and legitimate passions and instincts, in the absence of their true and substantial satisfactions, break forth into frantic disorders. If we want fruition we must turn our backs on the shadows, and gaze on their realities in God.

-Coventry Patmore, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (London: George Bell and Sons, 1895), 68.

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youtu.be/MPoNsWyWyjA, the forgotten people, Thievery Corporation

Have a Beautiful Day Friends

Sometimes small trees cast long shadows....

The sky in this Kauai sunrise was absolutely amazing. I thought it was a great way and shot to bring in the new year of 2024

Adelaide Festival Theatre.

Light and shadows reflecting from nearby buildings onto the Festival Theatre.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider / FransBouma camera tools / ReShade / Camera Raw

Streetlights create the nicest shadows sometimes.

Seen in Wetzlar

Broadway, downtown Los Angeles, California

Judges 9:36

When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!” Zebul replied, “You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.”

Shadow Arch

Fire Canyon

Valley of Fire

Nevada

November 2020

As seen along the B&M railtrail in Hampton, New Hampshire.

Shadows on a bag stall at Erith market

Life may be gone, but its shadow remains.

Walkway over the Hudson looking southwest. The fence is only present when over land ~ Poughkeepsie, NY

Fly resting on a bamboo cane with its shadow below

London 2/4/2021

14 pictures ahead - I usually try not to inundate my photostream, but I'm away until Monday ... have a great sunny weekend everyone!

Germany

Camera: Ricoh XR-2

Film : Agfa APX 100 B&W

What catches the eye sometimes...

Shadow surveilance aircraft landing at it's home base of Waddington

Is what Megan always shouts on the swing! A tribute to scooby39's excellent shadow shots :)

On a light background, shadows, silhouettes.. Glass.. against the background of light.

Silhouettes of glass and dried flowers. Light and shadow..

Shadows! Januari 2024, Arvidsjaur, Lapland, Sweden!

3rd May 2018.

grass shadows stretching across snow in the winters afternoon light.

Another from the bomb store in wales the other weekend,Bit of a test shot to get the parts right for nucleaus.

Camera Rotation.

Sooc Raw conversion.

Estoril Classics 2019 Classic F1 Pre- 1986 Race 2

13th Oct 2019.

Car: Shadow DN8

Driver: Jamie Constable

Portugal

Barcelona

Inspiracles Fotoprojekt - Karte 11

Thema: shadow s/w

"Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure."

~Eva Ibbotson

Another overhead shot, from Mandalay, Myanmar.