Shadow Geeks

Uncategorized by Tom Dills
Wall and shadows along Wigley Avenue, Basseterre, St. Kitts

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.

Tree Shadow along Paseo de la Princesa, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lamp and Shadow along Paseo de la Princesa, San Juan, Puerto Rico

6 comments

  1. Ken Bello's avatar
    Ken Bello

    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.

    1. Tom Dills's avatar
      Tom Dills

      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!

  2. Monte Stevens's avatar
    Monte Stevens

    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!

    1. Tom Dills's avatar
      Tom Dills

      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!

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