Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

Leonardo da Vinci

“Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight.” The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. “Very well, I shall be silent,” he replied, “I shall be a silent hallucination.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Fishing silhouette in Curacao

Statute in Peru with bird on head.

PHOTO CHALLENGE

This week, experiment with light and capture a silhouette.

More shadow shots

Ailsa from Where’s My Backpack chose a most interesting theme this week. At first I thought it would be easy because I have tons of pictures of silhouette’s. As I scrounged through all of my photos two things dawned on me: 1. I did not have a ton of pictures of silhouette’s but rather I had tons of pictures of shadows.. and 2. Silhouettes were extremely different than shadows.

After more searching I found a couple more that I think are true silhouettes.

Enjoy.

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