Me and my Shadow (six etudes in #monochrome)

This post goes for Round #205 of Shadow Hunters contest run by @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.

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.

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). 😎

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?

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

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

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

..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.

All images taken by me, copyright (c) @qwerrie

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