As much as I love to travel to distant shores, I am a big proponent of the idea that you don’t have to travel to make cool images, and sometimes the best opportunities are where you live (or next door, or at least close-by). As Dorothy famously put it, “There’s no place like home!”

A case in point: this image of a shadow on our bathroom floor (below). Of course, the light had to be right, and the window aperture open to the correct degrees. A comment on my Instagram: this looks like a “poltergeist” [or, at least as poltergeists are visually represented in the movies].

Monochromatic imagery works particularly well with high contrast, lights, and shadows. Of course, you can also ignore colors, like the disreputable pale avocado of our bathroom tiles, installed long before we moved in 27 years ago. In any case, here’s a bonus light and shadow monochromatic image, of a dahlia from my garden (below).