Monte Stevens recently made a post on his blog titled “Seeing Shadows.” The comments indicated a general affinity for shadows and I am also a fan. About the same time Monte made that post I was making these photos, unbeknownst to each other. Within a few days, anyway.
I wish to suggest that we may be known as Shadow Geeks.
I like these photos – a lot! I also like the expression “Shadow Geeks”. Can I use that? I don’t have much in the way of shadows prominently featured in photographs. Could be that we get a lot of overcast skies here and shadows like these are hard to come by.
Hi Ken –
Feel free to use it – I just made it up! I sometimes get a little tired of the soft light/magic hour/can’t take a good photo in daylight stuff and shadows appeal to my contrarian nature! Shadows are our friend!
Thanks for the plug, Tom. I smile as I accept, along with many others, the new title of Shadow Geek. We do fancy the play of light and are not just pointing a camera. We are seeing!
Hi Monte –
I suppose we ought to be a little careful, or else we solitary, casual, shadow-loving photographers may inadvertently start some kind of a trend. And you never know, since one thing leads to another we may all start doing something really risky like using shallow depth of field!
Please include me in that shadowy, clandestine club! I love shadows and can be found photographing them almost daily. 🙂
I guess we’re all really trying to capture shadows of one kind or another, literal or figurative.