Twirly Gate Shadows by helenmoss

Twirly Gate Shadows

I had a few minutes in Cambridge this afternoon while Will was at drum lesson and had the brilliant idea of taking a picture of a beautiful sun-dial built onto the wall of a university building in town - thus cleverly capturing the SHADOW of the gnomen (I love that word!). Only problem was, after running there and whipping out my camera, the sun went in behind a big fat cloud. No sun, no shadow. So I had to turn around and run back to the school in time for the end of the lesson. Of course, just as I got back, the sun popped out and there were shadows everywhere again. Mocking me! So this pretty gate shadow was my consolation prize. It's been that kind of day.
I looove the shadows!!
May 27th, 2010  
Wow.
May 27th, 2010  
Love this shadow! I haven't taken the time to go fine one and I could never top this. This is great!
May 28th, 2010  
Well, this is a pretty shot and think of all the exercise you got along the way! lol
May 28th, 2010  
Nice find!
May 28th, 2010  
Isn't there a song about chasing shadows? Could be there's a lot of that going around on 365 this week! If this is a substitute, it's a pretty terrific one! I believe I saw this on the popular page earlier today!

When you said Will had his drum class, I thought of my Ashley's picture yesterday. http://365project.org/lulu/365/2010-05-25 Maybe you'd be so kind as to leave her a comment...she's only recently started leaving pictures. What sort of drums does Will play? Ash met her husband, John, in a drum class over 6 years ago, and now they share a stage together!
May 28th, 2010  
And a very pretty gate it is. Love the detail and the shapes in this shadow.
May 28th, 2010  
Such a beautiful gate! Love the shadow.
May 28th, 2010  
This is a GREAT theme shot -- extremely nice "consolation" shot.
May 28th, 2010  
what a fancy shadow! very nice.
May 28th, 2010  
I'm with Bonnie, I'd take this consolation. Great shot.
May 28th, 2010  
This is very twirly and lovely! What a shame about the sun dial and lack of sun, good idea for shadow theme and 'gnomon' is now a new entry in my top ten fav words chart, and how do people tell the time with a sun dial when the goes in???
May 28th, 2010  
Mmmm, good question...let me see, I think it must be that time simply stops when the sun goes in and starts again when it comes out. That's why rainy days always seem to last much longer than sunny ones! Yep, you can tell I'm a trained scientist!
May 28th, 2010  
Great shadow of a beautiful gate.
May 28th, 2010  
Great minds think alike, I was lucky with the sun.
May 28th, 2010  
love the patterns in the shadow! nice gate!
May 29th, 2010  
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