Simply, a shadow is an absence of light, it forms because light travels in straight lines. When an opaque object or substance is placed in the path of light rays. The opaque material does not allow light to pass through it. The light rays that pass through the edges of the material form the outline of the shadow.
Sometimes the shadows look so disconcerting that they change the way we see things. Sometimes it really looks like the shadows are trying to tell us a different story of reality.
Here we have collected several photos where shadows turned an ordinary picture into a masterpiece:-
1. It looks like the shadow of this bench is falling into pixels.
2. The shadow of this leaf I found while hiking kind of looks like a dancing fairy.
3. Oh my gosh, we missed it after all...
4. The shadow cast by my engagement ring looks like Batman.
5. The shadow of this tree creates the illusion of a gap in the fence behind it.
6. This dog’s shadow is an almost perfect arrow pointing right at you.
7. My steamer casts a shadow that looks like a witch.
8. These flowers at my parents’ place cast a squirrel shadow.
9. This shaker ball shadow blew our minds!
10. My dog’s shadow turned me into a centaur.
11. This shadow is evolving.
12. This shadow is cast from 2 different trees in my parking lot.
13. A phone cord shadow that looks like DNA.
14. The animals are standing still, but their shadows are floating.
15. The way my planter’s shadow looks like an alligator.
16. Jack Skellington or a creepy clown?
17. Only 3 spiral ornaments and the rest are the shadows they cast.
18. The shadow from this lamp almost gave me a heart attack.
19. Only the prescription lens of these glasses casts the shadow.
20. Who’s ever thought about this?
21. Even a small leaf can be a real dragon.
22. Accidents are not accidental.
23. "2 girls casting a gorilla shadow."
24. This shadow opens a portal to another world.
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Playing with shadows can take a creative mind to fantasy world, going beyond one's normal imaginations. Thus, came into public show of theatres, long back about 50-60 years, shadows on white screens human and animal figures in interactive modes, generated out of constructive playing with finger-folds in either silent, or with background musics -- I guess, an idea that came from puppet shows.
ReplyDeleteThese photographs strongly create some such constructive art of immense values, of course in minds with cultural bents. Expressions of forms which need not exclusive narrations in words.
Balendra nath Lahiri, 08Jan2021.