Me and my Shadow (six etudes in #monochrome)

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This post goes for Round #205 of Shadow Hunters contest run by olgavita@olgavita. I ventured into a little journey thru my photofolders (from various years), and prepared this little selection of six photos. All edited to monochrome - to give them possibly little more similarity. Hope you appreciate the visuals.

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A pan I found at abandoned village house in the neighborhood to my summer place. I can visit it each year to see more and more stuff is leaving the house, lol. Although initially I thought there was only useless soviet epoch rubbish was left there, and broken furniture and empty vodka bottles, but no - each year there is only more new rubbish, and less old rubbish, if you understand what I mean. Last time I checked this pan already have gone too.


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This beautiful cafe-shop hidden in a pavilion with columns in the middle of a rose garden in Pavlovsk - one of the former imperial summer residences - was full of rare and exquisite shadows! Alas, I could not stop here and photograph everything I saw (because I was not alone, and my comrades were not going to wait me even for a minute, moving away with every second of my stop; but a couple more captures of this place you will definitely see in my next participations of the challenge... one day). 馃槑


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I was extremely pleased how this #street turned out, in terms of shadows: baby's jacket created one shadow, and balloon another - both were very different size and of course any staging was out of the question, it was all a pure game of chance - so, both combined in an a cool synthetic shadow that seems belong to said girl - but it 's not. The more you think about it, staring at the pic, more magical the effect is. Liked this game very much! And what about you?


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One from the vaults. Bright sun on a spring day granted me with this. Turned out over-exposed, but worked pretty well as monochrome.


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No 'me', just my bike's shadow.


And the last most enigmatic one. In case you cant decipher it yourself....

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..it is hands, just two hands! And if you want more details, here they are: its my girlfriend's attempt to leave her ephemera trace on a wall of a very very very very very very dusty attic of an old XIX century residential building where we invaded without the permission of the house habitants. I did not had wide-angle lens back then, only cheap basic 50mm, but still got away with some very memorable captures.

All pictures taken by me. I present some oldies today, everything you see is my evening walk with .... across a few central streets of St.Petersburg.

location: St.Petersburg, Russia various natural light
camera/lens: Canon 5D 50mm, 150mm, 70-200mm raw-conv

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