#light and shade

[nighting-crow]

Me, starting another Skyrim play through with mostly follower mods: What could go wrong?

What went wrong:

[petermorwood]

I took a few interesting snapshots this morning: colour photos that look like monochrome.

There was some frost last night, and this is how it settled on the black tarpaulin covering our firewood.

The textures are fascinating. That tarp is just plastic sheeting, completely smooth, yet in this shot the frost makes it look like woven fabric.

One other thing about taking photos in weather like that - it give extra appeal to getting inside again for a hot cuppa and thawed-out ears...

[johbeil]

Resting among motorcycles

Off Viale Europa, Rome, Italy. The city is full of them - parked like here or in rapid and mostly madcap motion.

Olympus 35SP on Kodak ProImage film.

[federer7]

From the series Light and Shade. 1958

Photo: Elfriede Mejchar

[zegalba]

Paul Cocksedge: Light and Shade (2021)

[0heymoon]

[daveamisdpda]

Shadow play…

Thursday 20 March was the first day of astrological spring. The weather was warm with blue sky with some cloud cover. That meant there was a fair bit of sunshine. This created some interesting shadow patterns which I felt I had to capture. I've rendered these three images in black and white to help emphasise the shadows and to avoid the distraction of colour.

Location: Cleeve Wood/Keynsham Meadow (nr. Willsbridge), Gloucestershire | Shot: 20.03.25

[shy-girl04]

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

Charles Bukowski

[mihhhhha]

[ich-hoere-dir-zu]

LightandShade

[itsstreetlove]

Sunshine and Shadows

Gun Quarter ~ Birmingham

2023

[nighting-crow]

Skyrim Modded Followers, except they were assigned random one liners from my friend group

Kaidan, mocking the way someone tried to defend the way they wrote double t's: "class if u write two t's in a row u must write it like a capital H. No Billy no one would be confused abt it shut up" Inigo: "It's hard to throw while aiming!" Lucien: "I threw my trident at him in fear, and I mean threw my trident. Not to hit him. Just threw it on the floor." Auri: "im going to climb in ur ass like reverse vore." Lucifer: "I feel like im having a mid life crisis at the ripe age of 20 bro... Wait 22. No...20..How fucking old am i???" Xelzaz: "I started travelling with the Dragonborn and suddenly I'm a house wife." Eris: "Empathy or whatever the fuck it is" Varrick: "real, like major turn on if she can kill." Caryalind: "So when it rains does the sidewalk get squishy?" Gabrielle: "live laugh love the trauma so i don't run jump dive off the bridge" Disnel: "Spray him with a water bottle idk." Khash: "Child self endangerment; The usual." Nebarra: "Puff puff pass. But it's text text pass." Taliesin: "I'm not the dumb one. You just have a lack of spacial awareness and don't know when I'm talking to you" Remiel: "im indecisive and need to be peer pressured or peer restrained" Gore: "You can do anything with a mace and a dream."

[joypunart]

live drawings 2024 • charcoal, ink, felt tip, oil pastel

I've really missed live drawings and hope to do more soon. These are some of my favourites from my sessions!

[memorabilia-memoria]

Bologna, ottobre 2024

[federer7]

Waiting for the Tram. 1950s. From the series "Light and Shade"

Photo: Elfriede Mejchar

[salchat]

Last night's life group, with the lovely Hannah modelling. I used my oil pastels and got very messy. I started with broad strokes of shadow and light and did no lines at all until I really needed them. It was very interesting.

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