Monthly Photo Competition #10 - September 2023 - “Shadow and light”

Courthouse, Santa Barbara

View from Emilio’s restaurant, Sint Maarten

Reaching for the light…

Lobby of the O. Henry Hotel in Greensboro, NC.

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What we view in the shadows

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This is a shot I did for a music project some time ago. I imagined a stool on a stage with a cigarette burning in it, with a spotlight shining on the microphone:

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I liked the way the light coming through the cast iron railing displayed on the stair steps. (click thru for hi res view)

Shadow of mountains, shadow of clouds. The sky is my ground when the Sun is below me.

“Self Portrait.” Taken 2017.

…this photo accurately portrayed my mood at the time. It was a rough year. Lit with a single strobe, positioned very carefully camera-left so as to not put any light at all into my eyes.

I wasn’t planning to submit anything this month, but I just happened across this snapshot I took more than 20 years ago somewhere in Southeast Asia. It’s an iPhone photo of a glossy print, which hasn’t improved the quality at all, but I’ve always liked this photo.

Please vote for your three favourite photos, using whatever criteria you feel is best. All Dopers are welcome to vote - you don’t need to have submitted a photo. You cannot vote for your own photo. You get three votes (and the poll will make you use all of them).

The voting deadline is 9pm UK time on Friday 29th September.

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