An amateur naturalist's photoblog
Use backlighting when you want to hide certain details or create a stronger contrast between light and dark areas. Backlighting your subject will allow you produce silhouettes and help to emphasize lines and shapes.
Backlighting can cause the edges of the subject to glow, while keeping certain areas dark – as in this shot of mating lions.
“Contre-jour” or back-lighting is achieved by placing the subject between you and the light source (the sun, moon or other light source).
Albrecht Dürer rhinoceros :
In 2001 the black rhinoceros population stood at 3,100. An additional 247 black rhino are held in captivity worldwide.
Black rhinoceros in captivity (no comment) :
Rembrandt’s Lion :
Lions once roamed much of the African continent, but recent studies suggest that lion populations may have decreased nearly 90% in just one decade, with fewer than 20,000 remaining in just a handful of countries. In the meantime, the human population has just reached 7 billion!
“The relationship of homo sapiens to the other animals is one of unremitting exploitation. We employ their work; we eat and wear them. We exploit them to serve our superstitions: whereas we used to sacrifice them to our gods and tear out their entrails in order to foresee the future, we now sacrifice them to science, and experiment on their entrail in the hope—or on the mere offchance—that we might thereby see a little more clearly into the present … To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”
Auguries of Innocence
by William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
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