The shadows and the photographer's distance. The question of whether these two people know eachother or whether the light is more important than the child. The little shoe and little pointed foot towards which the shadow reaches. These are the reasons I am attracted to this picture.
What else does this image describe? It has a very mysterious visual atmosphere and tenor. It's something about the apparent time of day it was taken, when shadows are long and everything white glows in the strangest and most ineffable way.
and by the way, it seems obvious but I had just never considered it before, it appears quite simple, it's possible to calculate the height of a thing by the length of its shadow. It'd blow my mind if someone was able to reconstruct the scene in the photo with... math, maybe:
Length of Shadow = Height of building/tangent(sun altitude)
(HeightBetweenThePoints(onYaxis)*sin(sunangle)) / sin(90 - sunangle)
I'm testing to see if I can post a comment now.
ReplyDeleteOK. It's working. This is such a cool image...seems to speak of the passing of time...everything in the image is in motion or transition from the girl swinging to the light.
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