The evolution of my shadow

 Most of my photographic walks and wanderings take place late in the afternoons on sunny winter or early spring days, and this of course means low sunlight and shadows.  It’s my favorite time of day to take pictures.  The light is clear and defined, warm and glowing with a kind of noble and uplifting transcendence.  

My shadow walks along with me on these excursions, my lone companion on these otherwise solitary ventures out from the confines of Charleston to the magically beautiful places I love to photograph such as Charles Towne Landing and Magnolia Gardens.  I like to stop every now and again and compose a picture of my shadow gazing at some light-filled corner of the world I have ventured into for s short time.  When I started doing this in earnest a couple of years ago, the shadows were rather standard fare, curious, but not so unusual. Nowadays, however, I am trying to inject something more personal lnto my shadow self-portraits — perhaps an angle that reveals more of my profile or silhouette, perhaps even a wave of the hand and greeting.  

Shadows can be somewhat mysterious, these tantalizing silhouettes, but I rather like to see my shadow and have a bit of company on those short journeys.   There’s something comforting about it.  I don’t feel as alone out wherever I am, not that I don’t enjoy being by myself.

Au revoir, shadow!

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