Shadows
I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
-- David Hockney, Artist
By Donna Poulton
My earliest memory of shadows is from a time when I was three or four-years-old lying on my grandmother’s couch for an afternoon nap. I would watch the shadows of the Aspen leaves skipping and playing across the living room walls. Even at that age I appreciated the ambiguity; they were small good-natured shadows, but they were shadows.
Cañón shadows—Navaho, Credit: Edward S. Curtis, Library of Congress
Into the shadow—Clayoquot, Credit: Edward S. Curtis, Library of Congress
Shadows, Crow Agency, Montana c. 1905, Credit: Library of Congress
Ranch in Montana, Credit: Library of Congress
Texas, Shadow of Oil Derrick on Sand Hills, Credit: Library of Congress
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
-- Conrad Hall, Cinematographer
Fence at Four Corners, Credit: Wenzday01
Cedar Shadows on Snow Covered Slopes, Credit: Library of Congress
Lookout Tower, Montana Credit: mattspinner
Shadow of the Cross, Credit: Bryan Davidson
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
-- Walt Whitman