Shadow Hunters SMASh Contest-Round 379 | Looking into the shadow

Gazes intersect in the shadows: that of the subject of the photo—the cat—and that of the person looking at it and capturing it in the photo. The shadow envelops or gathers them, turning them into inhabitants of it: man and cat are beings in the dimmed frame of light.

Photo taken on the Araya beach boardwalk in March 2025.