This is my, admittedly, feeble attempt to make the chain look like the map of Africa.
Kept thinking about what I could photograph to bring over my thoughts on religion and the words of the Black Eyed Peas song kept going through my mind.
I used a building site lamp to light the cross and chain from one side to make the shadows (the lengthy shadows are my fingers).
Put the cross on a piece of paper on my living room carpet, also the lamp on the carpet to the right. Me, down on my knees (how fitting ;-), trying to hold the camera steady with one hand whilst placing the fingers of the other hand at the right angle to get the long shadows (to do this I had to cross my arms…aarrgh). I now wonder why I didn’t put the lamp to the left, it would have made things so much easier.
I hope, in the way I’ve presented this, that some understand the symbolic and don’t just see it as a cross on a chain. I’ll take the chance…
Postchallenge:
The score on this picture was so low at the beginning I seriously considered a self DQ, then I got my first comment. It cheered me up so much that I reconsidered and now I’m glad I did.
Thanks a million to all of you who voted and commented, you really made my week.
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