Sunday, January 12, 2014

Shadows

Hello and good morning!

The word prompt this week at


 chosen for us by the lovely Milagros is 

Shadows


A fabulous prompt but one that really had me thinking! I had to delve into my archives for some of these ...
The beautiful Bellver Castle in Majorca ... a 14th Century fortress that overlooks the City of Palma provides stunning Shadows throughout the day as the sun moves around


It is so perfectly preserved and the architecture is amazing with a circle of arches in the main courtyard


Of course it is an Island of sunshine even in the winter months ... The streets are so narrow that one side is always in the Shadow ... which is where I head when it is too hot ...
This was taken some years ago in the month of November


So I was happy to step out of the Shadows

One of the funniest photos I took was the Shadow created by a bird on a sun canopy ... It looks headless ...


... because he was peeking over the top

Then there is a strange one ... someone hiding in the Shadows?

Did you ever play the game of making Shadows on the wall with your hands when you were a child? My brothers and I use to do it all the time so the other day in a brief moment of sunshine I tried to recreate this with my hand against the fence ...


Do you see something eerie in the Shadow? No?
Look closer...


Who is that guy in the Shadow??

Link up with us at 


this week and share your stories of Shadows

It's my birthday today so I'm off out to lunch with my family

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~











24 comments:

Chriss Blagrave said...

Happy Birthday Ros!
I hope your day is joyous!
Your shadows pics are so beautiful, lovely captured memories I am sure :)

Sylvia said...

Happy Birthday, Ros! Yes, I made shadows as a child, even as a mom! Love the concept of shadows as it relates to art. Fabulous Photo's...have a wonderful Sunday and birthday!

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

Wonderful photo share! That little shadow of the birdie is really cute, it is amazing that you captured that! Well, who is that guy... yes is scary! : 0

Asia King (aka Joanna K) said...

Beautiful photos Ros, fantastic capture of those fab shadows. Happy birthday and I hope you have an amazing day!

AppleApricot Wen said...

Hello sweetie, first of all: happy birthday to you!!! I have to appologize that I forgot to mention it in my blogpost, please forgive me, I'm really not feeling to well at the moment. I will add it :)
Second: your post on shadows is wonderful!! What a great shadows you found. That headless bird made me smile :)
Hugs and happy happy day to you dear.

AppleApricot Wen said...

ps... I made a special blogpost for you now, I felt so guilty ;)

Lynnda said...

Happy Birthday my dearest Ros... Hope you will have a great time with the family!....

Lovely photos you shared! Hugs...x

Zue said...

Oh Ros, I Love the bird shadow. You just have to be in the right place at the right time with your camera. That was your lucky day:)
Sue xxx

Sasha said...

Brilliant photos, as always, Ros x

Ana K. said...

Fantastic shadows-photos! Happy birthday Ros!
Hugs from Slovenia

Heidi said...

Happy Birthday Ros!
I hope you have had a fantastic day:)
Lovely photos:)
Hugs, Heidi:)

Astrid Maclean said...

Fabulous photos again Ross!!

Mona Pendleton said...

Fabulous photos Ros! Love them all!

Davi said...

Love the shadows the architecture created Ros and the headless bird was tooo funny! The hand one bring back memories of doing those as a child:) Hope you had a fantastic birthday!!

Darnell said...

Happy, happy birthday, Ros, and many, many more!! Beautiful shadow photography! Who was that guy?!! Hugs, Darnell

Sandy Ang said...

lovely photo of the architecture !

Unknown said...

Hope you had a wonderful birthday dear Ros! Your photos are of a remarkable make, and I simply LOVE that photo you took of that peeking bird, you have a great eye for detail my friend! Hugs, Ira x
Ira’s Crea Corner

1CardCreator said...

Happy Birthday, enjoy your lunch. Love all the photos of shadows too! ~Diane

Tracy said...

LOL. The headless bird and guy hiding in the wood shadow are too funny Ros. Beautiful shots of the castle. Hope you enjoyed your special day. Big hugs!

Unknown said...

Happy Birthday to you my friend. I do hope it was a great one. Great shots this week indeed.

Hugs~

Barbara said...

Happy belated birthday - I hope you had a great time with the family! All your shadow impressions make me want to go on vacation NOW!

Diane said...

Happy birthday my dear friend and I apologize it is so late. I have had so many computer problems I guess that was all I could co us on! I am without a computer at the moment so have to use my kindle which I am just learning to use. Lovely post and great photos. I will email you when I hopefully get my computer back.

Stella said...

I missed this post ....I am so ashamed.... my apologies! Looking at your beautiful photos I relaised how much photos and stories I missed last year. But it;s good to see few of a wonderful vacation. Spot on the theme. Besides cardmaking I also think you are a good photographer. These are beautiful and I enjoy looking at them. Maybe one day we can go there togetherXX

libbyquilter said...

happy belated birthday. i hope that you had a beautiful one.

your many shots of shadows were fun to look through. i had to laugh at the 'headless' bird. :-D

:-)
libbyQ