Contre Jour Park Life

A lady on her mobile phone in Nottingham Arboretum Park on a cold January afternoon.

The contre jour light creating some beautiful rim lighting.

I asked the lady if I could take the photo. I told her she would be mostly in silhouette.

I love the long shadows too.

Shot crouching down, with my Sony A6000, 50mm f1.8 in one hand and a whippet on a lead in the other hand.

All the people
So many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their Parklife
Know what I mean?


Edited in GIMP / G'MIC

[Maggiemae]

I like the idea of contre jour! camera pointing towards the light.

[Ethel]

There! Fav! I found this through going into tags blind, or the tag challenge. I probably won’t do it anyway. But when I saw this I was out raged you have but one comment. I love every aspect and your composition decisions.

[Phil Howcroft]

@ethelperry Ethel thank you. I only posted this last night and I am always a few days behind on my posts . It may collect comments throughout the day. Thanks for your appreciation of the image 😀

[Phil Howcroft]

@maggiemae it always produces striking images

[Beryl Lloyd]

Simply beautiful !

[Nick]

I really like this in b&w.

[Casablanca]

Lovely one, enjoying the stretch of her shadow too.

[Phil Howcroft]

@beryl thanks beryl , the light was lovely

@nickspicsnz thank you Nick , glad you like this

@casablanca low long shadows just create great photos Casa'