albertk
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- Start Date
- Sep 25, 2020
- End Date
- Oct 17, 2020
Start Date - September 25, 2020
End Date - October 17, 2020
This Cameraderie 38th Challenge theme is: Shadows.
As usual, this challenge will consider originality, technical merit, and artistic vision.
Everyday we have a world of light and shadow, and it is the shadow that is cast, real or metaphorically, that is the subject this month. The shadow will have a form and structure of its own and from that gets its significance. For you to bring that to the forefront and let us enjoy your interpretation. If you don't have a shadow of doubt your picture is great, show it here! For you to make new icons.
A shadow doubles up for reality, moves around like a mirror-image reflecting real objects and envelops them, encroaches them. In our context, if you are lucky, the picture is the after-image as picture that is left over to share. I'm sure great South American novelists would have had much to say about that netherworld of shadows.
Shadows abstract. Shadows black. Shadows of colours. Shadows with light. Shadows with form. Or without. Shadows casted and shadows painted in the air on smoke or mist. Shadows attached to something. Shadows alone. Shadows moving. Standing. Leaning. Laying. Running. Drinking. Jumping. Anything goes.
Looking for aphorisms I find some great ideas:
Step out of the box. Many years ago two great artists-photographers (among more) took the idea of photography further by letting the shadow of an object directly bring out the subject on a piece of photographic paper: Christian Schad (what a name in this context! his pictures were called Schadographs) and Man Ray (again a great name! his pictures were called Rayogrammes), both working in the sphere of Dada and Surrealism. In our digital era, how can we get such direct results?
Any and all interpretations of a Shadow or of Shadows & Shades of shadow will be allowed, accepted and considered. In black and white. In colour. From film or digital. From camera or phone. Plain or enhanced as 'abstract'.
& If you wish to also include a brief comment or explanation or anything else about your 'Shadow' entry, or how it fits in with the theme of this challenge, please do so.
This challenge will run for a little more than 3 weeks - starting today, September 25, and running through October 17 - Please submit your entry by the end of Saturday, October 17, 2020. I will do my best to evaluate and judge in a timely fashion after that.
So, so much for now . . . show us your shadows!
Albert
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No change to the tried and trusted rules, which are as follows:
1. Either take pictures that match the nominated theme or select some from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the images in order to enter it.
2. Only one entry per challenge, please. If you want to withdraw an entry and replace it with another, that is OK, but you must make it clear in the post containing your replacement pictures that this is what you've done. You can add or change the title and add to the edit line to let everyone know.
3. The decision of the curator at the end of the challenge is final - don't give him/her a hard time about it: this is just a friendly photo-challenge, after all!
4. The winner will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Challenge, and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the Cameraderie Photo Challenges forum, with details of the new theme. Don't forget - that opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.
5. The curator cannot enter in his or her own challenge.
End Date - October 17, 2020
This Cameraderie 38th Challenge theme is: Shadows.
As usual, this challenge will consider originality, technical merit, and artistic vision.
Everyday we have a world of light and shadow, and it is the shadow that is cast, real or metaphorically, that is the subject this month. The shadow will have a form and structure of its own and from that gets its significance. For you to bring that to the forefront and let us enjoy your interpretation. If you don't have a shadow of doubt your picture is great, show it here! For you to make new icons.
A shadow doubles up for reality, moves around like a mirror-image reflecting real objects and envelops them, encroaches them. In our context, if you are lucky, the picture is the after-image as picture that is left over to share. I'm sure great South American novelists would have had much to say about that netherworld of shadows.
Shadows abstract. Shadows black. Shadows of colours. Shadows with light. Shadows with form. Or without. Shadows casted and shadows painted in the air on smoke or mist. Shadows attached to something. Shadows alone. Shadows moving. Standing. Leaning. Laying. Running. Drinking. Jumping. Anything goes.
Looking for aphorisms I find some great ideas:
- "Like a shadow I am and I am not" ― Rumi [Try to capture that ephemeral world in images . . . Does a shadow have life after all? ]
- “The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow” ― George R.R. Martin [The fastest lens sees the biggest shadows]
- “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream” ― Euripides [Beloved ones are gone forever but hopefully great love is retained in an image]
- "A dream itself is but a shadow" ― William Shakespeare [And isn't a picture nonetheless made of such a fabric?] Wow, this author knows about the shadows cast . .
- "We are but dust and shadow” ― Horace [And what is a photo but a reflection of that dust and shadow?]
- “Has a shadow a name? / ¿Tiene nombre una sombra?” ― Ursula K. Le Guin [ And if yes, then it can be depicted and you can tell us about it]
- And then there is that cave of Aristoteles where things/concepts and ideas are projected, where the shadows are the dwellers' reality and for outsiders not accurate representations of the real world. [And for whom is the image more true than reality in the form of a picture? For me, personally, these 'shadows' ARE reality, form a world of its own.]
OK, so much for the fun I have with this . . Step out of the box. Many years ago two great artists-photographers (among more) took the idea of photography further by letting the shadow of an object directly bring out the subject on a piece of photographic paper: Christian Schad (what a name in this context! his pictures were called Schadographs) and Man Ray (again a great name! his pictures were called Rayogrammes), both working in the sphere of Dada and Surrealism. In our digital era, how can we get such direct results?
Any and all interpretations of a Shadow or of Shadows & Shades of shadow will be allowed, accepted and considered. In black and white. In colour. From film or digital. From camera or phone. Plain or enhanced as 'abstract'.
& If you wish to also include a brief comment or explanation or anything else about your 'Shadow' entry, or how it fits in with the theme of this challenge, please do so.
This challenge will run for a little more than 3 weeks - starting today, September 25, and running through October 17 - Please submit your entry by the end of Saturday, October 17, 2020. I will do my best to evaluate and judge in a timely fashion after that.
So, so much for now . . . show us your shadows!
Albert
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No change to the tried and trusted rules, which are as follows:
1. Either take pictures that match the nominated theme or select some from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the images in order to enter it.
2. Only one entry per challenge, please. If you want to withdraw an entry and replace it with another, that is OK, but you must make it clear in the post containing your replacement pictures that this is what you've done. You can add or change the title and add to the edit line to let everyone know.
3. The decision of the curator at the end of the challenge is final - don't give him/her a hard time about it: this is just a friendly photo-challenge, after all!
4. The winner will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Challenge, and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the Cameraderie Photo Challenges forum, with details of the new theme. Don't forget - that opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.
5. The curator cannot enter in his or her own challenge.
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