In The Shadows

Shadows can help draw the viewer’s eye to the subject and at other times the shadow becomes the subject.  Therefore, I invite you into my world of shadows.

The world around us is filled with shadows...and at times there are things lurking in the shadows.  In this post I find a number of things lurking in my shadows and attempt to capture them through my camera lens.  I find shadows an abstract veil that beckons me to explore this line between dark and light.

Shadows

I saw a frightful shadow on the floor

And wondered if this thing was mine

Surely this frightful shape could not be mine

And then it moved and then I knew

That this frightful shape upon the floor was mine

So, join me and check out that shadow on your floor.  As a photographer I am always aware of shadows cast by what I am shooting - while a shadow has a shape it also changes as the light falling on it changes -and this sometimes creates shapes that seem alien to the image that is casting them. 

In this series of images - I have treated the image cast on the floor in sets of four panels -sort of like comic book panels each one relating to the next -as if they are telling a story. I leave it to the viewers imagination to supply the story -they are only my shadows but the story is your interpretation.