Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt: Shadow(s)

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Wow, this was a hard one! I didn’t have time to look, but I couldn’t think of any pictures we had that had shadows, and the time I thought about taking a picture outside at home, it was overcast or the sun was too far down. I tried taking some of Jesse doing hand shadows. At first I was disappointed because I couldn’t get the right balance of focus and light. but when I downloaded them and experimented a little bit, some of them came out at least well enough to make out. 🙂

Gorilla:

Gorilla shadow puppet

Bird:

Bird hand shadow

Rabbit:

Bunny shadow puppet

For this one, I set up some of Jesse’s Heroscape figures. The picture didn’t look like it came out at all until I fiddled with the light settings after I downloaded them, and voila, there they were! It’s a little grainy, but it’s kinda cool.

Tiny warriors' shadow

Visit TNChick’s place here for more photos on this theme.

Updated to add:

I was thinking of this poem earlier in connection with this theme, but then forgot about it when posting at first. Amy Carmichael was a missionary in India for most of her adult life. The inspiration for this poem came as a result of the heat in India and the refreshing coolness to be found in the shadow, plus the story of the Israelites being led by the pillow of fire by night and the pillar of cloud by day in the book of Exodus. This poem would look nice with a picture of a nice shady place, which I don’t have. 🙂 But there are several pictures of such shade on other photo hunters’ entries for today.

I Follow Thee

Shadow and coolness, Lord,
Art Thou to me;
Cloud of my soul, lead on,
I follow Thee.
What though the hot winds blow,
Fierce heat beats up below?
Fountains of water flow —
Praise, praise to Thee.

Clearness and glory, Lord,
Art Thou to me;
Light of my soul, lead on,
I follow Thee.
All through the moonless night,
Making its darkness bright,
Thou art my heavenly Light —
Praise, praise to Thee.

Shadow and shine art Thou,
Dear Lord, to me;
Pillar of cloud and fire,
I follow Thee.
What though the way be long,
In Thee my heart is strong,
Thou art my joy, my song —
Praise, praise to Thee.

53 thoughts on “Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt: Shadow(s)”

  1. Great job! I tried to do shadow puppets, but I am home alone and I couldn’t do the puppets and take the picture. I didn’t think of using the timer.
    So, I took a bit of a different route.

    Great job on yours! I love the first one. 🙂

    Happy Hunting.

  3. I really like that last photo – reminds me of this show we used to watch on Sunday afternoons where the robots would be outlined in the foreground while a dubbed “kungfu” was playing in the background. THe ‘Bots would make fun of what was occuring while eating popcorn and such…too cute!
    grins,

  4. The hand puppets look teriffic! and I like the one with the little figures ,very cool! My photo is up, please come and visit

  7. Hello Barbara, the shadow animals are nice! I don’t know how to make any but shouldn’t be a problem learning. I’ve taken quite a few shadow photos of myself though. 🙂

  10. Cool shadows on the wall. Wow! I could really tell what all of them were except the first one. Fun. The kids like to make shadows sometimes too.

  25. The pictures are cool but the poem even more so. I need a little bit of that cool shade in my life right now! Thank you so much for sharing it!

    Amy

  31. Very cool shadow pictures, Barbara 🙂 – I love it when people get creative.

    Oh, I so enjoyed reading this poem – how cool. I might just to a digi scrap LO with it. Thank you for sharing it.

    Blessings on your weekend and always.

  32. Barbara, I LOVE your shadow photos…very creative! And that Amy Carmichael poem is a HUGE blessing. Perfect timing. I have friends who left last Saturday to be missionaries in a country near the equator. They wrote this week about having to adapt to the heat and humidity. They will be so blessed to read Amy’s poem. Thank you! And thank you for stopping by Pollywog Creek. I pray you are having a perfectly delightful weekend.

  33. I LOVE what you did with this theme! How creative! And the poem you posted does fit perfectly, I loved it 🙂

  35. I like hand puppets. I like the shots – the images are kind of fuzzy but still fun shots! Hope you have fun experimenting.

  43. I would never have thought of hand shadows. How clever of you! I especially like the shadowy battle — ooh, that gets us into all sorts of metaphors, doesn’t it? Great job with today’s theme.

  44. I had difficulty with this theme as well, but I hadn’t thought of hand shadows at all! I love the poem, so I’m quite glad to be a late visitor!

    Thanks for visiting yesterday 🙂

  50. When I first read this, I thought you said it was Jesus doing hand shadows instead of Jesse. That cracked me up. anyway, loved the shadows and Amy Carmichael’s story. Good stuff.

  51. I’m really sorry for my late visit this week.

    Those are magnificent photos! Great thinking! As a child, I loved making shadows and I have taught my son how to do simple ones like a dog and bird. It’s fun to do.

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