剪影與陰影拍照賞析！

Silhouettes and Shadows:

Bodh Gaya, India

 The Sun never knew how wonderful it was

until it fell on the wall of a building.

Louis Kahn, Architect

quoted in forward of In Praise of Shadows,  Junichiro Tanizaki

Mud Mosque, Mali

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain,

and see even here, upon a winter’s day,

how beautiful the shadows are.

  Alas!  It is the nature of their kind to be so.

The loveliest things in life are but shadows,

and they come and go, and change and fade away…

- Charles Dickens

Cambodia

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows,

the light and dark which that thing provides.

- Junichiro Tanizaki

Kabul, Afghanistan

We are but dust and shadow.

- Horace

Preah Khan, Cambodia

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

- J.R. R. Tolkien

Thailand

Burma/Myanmar

Mauritania

Brazil

Between the idea

And the reality

Between the motion

And the act

Falls the Shadow.

- T. S. Eliot

Italy

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.

The shadow is what we think of it.  The tree is the real thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

New York

Kandze, Tibet

Burma/Myanmar

Kabul, Afghanistan

China

Kashmir

Korea

Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan

Ancient Catacombs, Rome, Italy

A shadow on the wall

boughs stirred by the noonday wind

that’s enough earth

and for the eye

enough celestial participation.

- Gottfried Benn

Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann