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04-DEC-2005

Shadows, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2005

I don’t look for subjects to shoot when I walk through this park. I look for how light and shadow defines and abstracts those subjects. I saw the massive shadows that the noon time sun was casting on the plaza and on the wall of Scottsdale’s Performing Arts Center. The shadows alone were not enough to make the image work as expression for me. I waited for a person to enter my frame, and I abstracted him as well by shooting him just as he entered the shadow of the tree. He carries a bag in his hand, and ignores the huge shadows that threaten to engulf him. But we can see what he cannot. He appears to be entering a stark and mysterious world, and our imaginations enter it with him.

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Phil Douglis20-Aug-2006 16:31
Hah! I read your comment backwards. You are right -- the shadow is the stalker, the guy the potential stalkee. It makes a lot of difference, doesn't it! Thanks for correcting me, Christine.
Christine P. Newman20-Aug-2006 15:58
Phil, I was talking about the shadow being the stalker.
Phil Douglis20-Aug-2006 04:41
I think you have been influenced by Hollywood here, Christine. I will acknowledge the mystery and the strange shapes, but he seems much too busy carrying things to stalk anyone!
Christine P. Newman20-Aug-2006 03:08
A mysterious stalker with a strange shape seems to accompany him.
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