Show Us Your Dark Side - Shadow and Silhouette Portraits

[buler]

Have you been abducted by aliens?

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[Lefty]

We had no idea that the Predator was watching us.

 

[navarre]

I have been tempted to change my avatar to this one.

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

My entry:

the picture was taken by myself during August 2009, walking northwards somewhere on the Spanish "meseta" (I guess not far from Zamora), during my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella (I walked some 500 km from Salamanca).

The hat? A wool felt Borsalino (didn't want to take one of my best hats...) which served me very well indeed, as the temperatures neared the upper 90's and the sun was constantly shining from the back. It also survived unscathed, and now sports a "camino" yellow arrow pin.

 

[Lando]

Aruba, Caves. Stetson Shantung Panama on what ended up being a very wet and windy day in a jeep with no top. Man, that hat held up well.

 

[alanfgag]

 

[DudeInBlack]

The hat? A wool felt Borsalino (didn't want to take one of my best hats...) which served me very well indeed, as the temperatures neared the upper 90's and the sun was constantly shining from the back. It also survived unscathed, and now sports a "camino" yellow arrow pin.

A wool felt in 90+ degree heat?!? That's madness! :eeek:

 

[davidraphael]

Local Tibetan & nomad fedora. Labrang Buddhist monastery, East Tibet.

 

[Rodkins]

My vintage silhouette

 

[Aureliano]

My vintage silhouette

Clever!

 

[randooch]

 

[Aureliano]

Hi Alan, Great shot. Being a pianist, I have to ask off topic: what do you have in there? do you play?

 

[Blackthorn]

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I have been tempted to change my avatar to this one.

Excellent pic, Navarre!

 

[bowlerman]

fun thread! I'll have to contrive some stuff in the near future.

 

[SpeedRcrX]

In the Catacombs of Paris with my Lofgren Cap

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

A wool felt in 90+ degree heat?!? That's madness! :eeek:

Madness? Ahah...try NO hat under those circumstances, then please come back and tell me about it!
With the sun all day in my back, and wearing shorts, the sun would burn the back side of my legs, the softer skin in back of the knees. I soon had to change into (long) trousers to avoid that. The heat in fact proved not to be any problem, even though my hat did come handy to carry fresh water from a spring-fountain for a good splashing...

 

[bowlerman]

A couple of first attempts at shadowboxing/chiaroscuro...

Alright, maybe that last one is more light than dark, but that was actually from a few years ago, and I always thought there was something a little diabolical about it-- or maybe it's just me being pretentious!

 

[alanfgag]

Hi Alan, Great shot. Being a pianist, I have to ask off topic: what do you have in there? do you play?

Sorry Aureliano, missed your note. I played much more earlier in life, but I got back to it and took some lessons with my kids. Most recent efforts have involved Chopin nocturnes. The piano is a small NYC maker Otto Altenburg - late 19th c. probably, about 6 feet. I've had it since I was 13.

 

[Aureliano]

Sorry Aureliano, missed your note. I played much more earlier in life, but I got back to it and took some lessons with my kids. Most recent efforts have involved Chopin nocturnes. The piano is a small NYC maker Otto Altenburg - late 19th c. probably, about 6 feet. I've had it since I was 13.

I know Altenburgs, quite nice sound they have! Chopin, tell me about it. I'm learning my way through one of the Nocturnes right now, the one in C minor posthumous.

 

[Lefty]