I love taking silhouette photos, and capturing patterns of light and shade, so this challenge was right up my street. I have lots of silhouette shots sitting around in the archive.
I’d say they all suit the theme! I love the redwoods one - this reply box that I’m typing in happens to obscure the bottom half of the photo, so it’s a square crop along the top edge, and it looks quite abstract (and abstract photos are another love of mine).
What a sky!
It really was stunning. That’s why I didn’t mind posting earlier than usual this month - I don’t think I’m going to do better than that.
j
Lots of great entries this month so far. It’s going to be hard to choose. Again. 
Agreed. I think this month’s comp has easily the highest quality of entries that we’ve seen. And the thing is, it’s a consistently high level - they’re all really good.
j
I meant to mention earlier: I love @Strinka ’s interpretation of the theme. “Shadow and light” - indeed! Bravo!
There’s one photo posted this month (I won’t say which until the voting is done) which for my money is the best one we’ve ever had. Not my own, I hasten to add!
There is one photo this month that is far and away the best so far, IMHO, among another great field of contenders.
This was my alternate.
Wow, I love that. Where is it?
It looks like a view of the monsters under your bed!
It’s the Chicago skyline at sunset.
This is awesome. I love it!
I had a hard time deciding. I have a lot of these types of photos. Here’s a couple of the other ones I was considering:
Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary, NC:
And this was a bouquet sent to me after I had surgery awhile back. It looks like studio lighting, but it’s just the skylight in our kitchen which was beaming down at a fortuitous angle.
Why thank you! But I think it’s more down to nature than down to me. 
That bouquet is so good that it doesn’t look real!
j
I’m always fascinated by shadows. Earlier this summer, the power was out. I had a lantern on a high bookcase and it produced this shadow. I thought it looked like an alien.
Yeah, I’m weird. 
All I did was meter off the white flowers, so the background is darker.
No, no, it DOES look like an alien!
@Dung_Beetle -
He’s looking right at you!
I was looking right at him too, believe me! I had to keep an eye on him for a while before he could be captured and relocated.
This made (inter)national news:
Not far from home…
Where is that staircase, @AHunter3 ?