Long Shadows on a farm implement converted to mailbox in Idaho I found on a walk years ago.
Shadow Shot Sunday – Mailbox Shadow
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Tag Archives: Shadows
Komorebi Sights – A Japanese Word comes to Oklahoma
Through somebody at TikTok I learned a new Japanese word that I love, Komorebi. It refers to light filtering through trees and casting a shadow on the ground. It induces a sense of wonder in those observing it. Google the word, there is a lot to it. So a light went off in my head on this because I’ve always loved sunlight through leaves and I love dappled shadows.
Above is what I mean by dappled shadows.
Dappled Shadows on my backyard fence.
Light filtering through leaves at a local park.
Backing off a little bit from the same tree and you get the filtered light and the dappled shadows.
I love this word, it names a feeling that I have had for a long time. When I go hiking I’ve shot a lot of photos at the end of the day especially of the sun peaking through the leaves or branches. Dappled shadows that I come upon often leaves me amazed. Especially when the wind is blowing and I’m watching shadows moved.
Since I have learned the word, I am seeing Komorebi everywhere I look almost.
I am linking with Shadow Shot Sunday
Shadow Shot Sunday – Shadowy Bench
A bench alongside a shady walking path in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow.
I’m linking with Shadow Shot Monday
Shadows in the Square
Saturday we went to a local shopping center that was having an “Artist on the Square” event with a ton of artists distributing their wares including a family friend. It was hot but there was space was shady so it was tolerable.
I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday
ShadowShot Sunday – “On the Boardwalk”
I was involved in a Trail Cleanup Project on Saturday focused on this boardwalk wrapping around a pond on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area. When we started the shadows were long by noon, the shadows were gone and the temperature was up, a lot.
I am linking with Shadow Shot Sunday
Shadow Shot Sunday – At the Gym and in the Garden
Leaving the gym the other day I noticed the shadows crawling from the ground up the sides of the building at a corner. Cornershot Shadows?
At Tulsa’s Philbrook Gardens I loved this Moss Phlox and shadows.
And more shadows with these Petunias at the Tulsa Botanic Gardens.
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Shadow Shot Sunday – Trees in Triplicate
On a dog walk the other day I noticed the shadows were long because the sun was low.
The same spot using my hipstamatic app with a lens that tripled everything. Three times the fun?
Different tree, different hipstamatic lens.
Yet again.
I love Hipstamatic, nobody else I know seems to though. Oh well.
Shadow Shot Sunday – Hot Days Cool Shadows
A deck with wood rails in our neighborhood green belt.
My favorite dog walking route is in the greenbelt. Here we drop down into what I call “Shady Valley.” Nice respite on a hot day.
On my bike ride last week. This is where I rested for a while.
And this is a trail bridge over Mooser Creek. It never seems quite wide enough for riders approaching each other. The last two photos are kind of funky I know. My new bike cam only takes video so the stills are screen shots. I returned the camera and now have one that takes stills and video. Life is too short to edit video is my motto.
That’s it for this week. Everybody try and stay cool except you guys/gals in the southern Hemisphere, you try and stay warm!
Shadow Shot Sunday (Now at a new ink!)
Shadow Shot Sunday – Philbrook Gardens Bridge
Shadow Shot Sunday – The Vault
“The Vault” is a restaurant in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma that was formerly a bank. It was a Mid Century Modern designed bank that incorporated rooftop parking and drive through facilities. It closed and sat empty for years until a local person converted it into a cool restaurant. They kept the circular stairs but they don’t want anybody using them. The restaurant has been in business for years now and is very popular.
And it has very nice shadows.