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Shadows on a Wall



Shadows on a Wall, originally uploaded by Harold Davis.

I came across these shadows on a cliff wall hiking the other day in Yosemite. Seeing them made me wonder – like the Platonic description of the life being flickering shadows on a cave wall – if all we are seeing are shadows (compared with the real thing).

Is the photo showing a shadow? Do the shapes make a glyph? Is the shadow more real than the tree that made it?

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One Response to “Shadows on a Wall”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Shadow of the Past Says:
    August 31st, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    [...] g compositional effects. Related images: Bridge Shadow, Papaver and Shadow, Blind Shadow, Shadows on a Wall. [105mm, 157.5mm in 35mm equivalent terms, 1/4 of a second at f/32 and ISO 100, tripo [...]

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