Shadow Photo Contest. Round 39. Duo Shadows. Unity of Opposites. Original photography.

The Sun.
She is in hiding.
I wait to see her glow.
To see clearly defined shadows.

A piece of white paper. Two glass containers.
I polish and fill them with water. I wait for sharp shadows.
But then I see. I see the soft subtle caress of light playing on the paper.
Green and pink chevrons. A beautiful interplay of reflection and shadow. ~Ally.

One of the challenges I've always been fascinated by is @melinda010100’s Shadow Photo Contest. I really liked the theme for this week, selected by the guest judge @erikah: Duo Shadows and so I decided to find a likely Duo to photograph.

Being true to my aim of keeping my pieces and articles simple from now on, I arranged two poppies from my garden, into a small glass bottle, placed against a white wall and waited for the sunlight to come streaming through the side window.

However, the sun had other plans for the day and was nowhere to be seen.

While I was waiting for poppy shadows to miraculously appear on the wall, I started to play with two small glasses on a sheet of white paper on my table next to the window. When the sun is out light streams through this window and creates the most wonderful shadows. But not today.

Although the light was not bright enough to cast strong shadows, I noticed a beautiful glow around the base of the glasses. And so I experimented with the space between the glasses until a beautiful interplay of reflection and soft shadow came about.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? ~Shakespeare.

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It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. ~Shakespeare.

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Complementary color and triangles.

I love working with complementary colour and have an innate love of triangles. So I was quite excited to see how the reflections and shadows formed everted and inverted triangles. And how the pink and green triangles eventually overlapped.

And the symbolism

I promised this was going to be a short article: So basically for me, these reflections and shadows represent the unity of opposites.

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