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Shadow Shot Sunday #2 - Shadowy Surprise

I often regret spending too much time taking pictures when I should be taking in the raw sights and sounds of my new surroundings BUT not always. Using the camera to take in the sights sometimes produce unexpected but pleasant captures such as this photo. A whole new experience is always waiting behind the lens, for sure.

Taken at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg, Florida.



"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Shadow Shot Sunday #1 - Kule Loklo Lamma (Sweat Lodge)

Welcome to my first Shadow Shot Sunday post!


My sister and I discovered Kule Loklo during a short visit in Santa Rosa, California. We were looking for trails to hike and ended up at Coast Miwok at Point Reyes. It was a pleasant surprise find, especially because the village was as much a part of its natural surroundings as much as its natural surroundings are a natural part of it.

"Kule Loklo" (meaning "Bear Valley") is a recreated village. It stands where no village ever was, but where one might have stood.

The pictures you see here are of the interior of a lamma or "sweat lodge".

Lamma
(Sweat Lodge)

Large sweat lodges were used by men for both spritual and physical cleansing. Women were generally not permitted to enter. Smaller family sweat lodges were used by both sexes.

"Where there is much light,
the shadow is deep”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pick your next shadowy destination at
SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY