Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

Photo courtesy of Sara Rosso
SILHOUETTE. The proper definition of a silhouette is “the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass.” In photography, often we achieve that effect by putting light behind the object whose silhouette we want to capture, effectively darkening out the features of the subject instead of highlighting them. My silhouette of the Colosseum in Italy I think still shows off the ancient landmark while bringing other details into focus.
Share a picture of a Silhouette with everyone!
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New to The Daily Post? Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, you’re invited to get involved in our Weekly Photo Challenge to help you meet your blogging goals and give you another way to take part in Post a Day / Post a Week. Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.
Here’s how it works:
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Friday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
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there’s something nostalgic and beautiful about the railway along the connecticut shoreline http://alleluiafotos.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
On one of our many walks in Calgary.
This was a fun one!
http://livingtheseasons.com/2012/10/23/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
this should post on wednesday at 0800. http://militarybride.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-salute-to-colors/
Finally able to post again, the picture is a little small, I will try to update it later ..
http://samokan.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s my take on this week’s challenge hoping you suspense and thriller lovers enjoy
http://thewishfactor.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I’ve never done two entries before, but these two ladies made such nice silhouettes!
http://ohiasia.com/2012/10/24/silhouette2/
My contribution for this weeks challenge— enjoy
— http://broniam.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/#
Go!
http://celebes2.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I chose three photos for this week’s challenge. http://afterthekidsleave.com/2012/10/24/wordpress-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Wendy
Here is my picture : http://sebastienouvryphotographies.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/243365-23-octobre-2012-le-pigeon-sur-le-toit/
Hi, the following is my second entry .
http://ensummerfield84.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-sunset-in-tokyo/
dark-chocolate-tipped: http://yichinglin.com/2012/10/24/morning-flight/#comment-11944
Thanks to this challenge, I’ve tried my first slideshow. http://janetkoops.com/2012/10/24/silhouttes-of-canadas-wonderland/
Check out this link…it has a neat silhouette…
http://carolyncholland.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/sunset-photos-at-the-ovens-on-mt-desert-island-maine/
Very beautiful silhouettes from Germany !!!
http://duniaely.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette
Lost baby silhoutte http://tasveerz.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhoutte/
Hi
http://myelectricaldiary.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My (late) contribution to this week’s challenge
http://domesticoddities.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My contribution can be found at http://wp.me/pDHrD-1Ce.
Wonderful pics and great challenge!
Here is my contribution …Hope you like it…
http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I’m in a moon mood! – rita
http://shapingthepoem.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/a-hamlet-moon/dsc_0101/
Here’s my favorite recent silhouette – taken by my young daughter!
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Khao San Road, Bangkok
http://revel-in-it.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here is my first entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge. Photos are from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. http://palmettoislandgirl.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here is my 2nd entry
http://hamburgundmeehr.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2/
Here’s my addition to the Silhouette topic!
http://agnateblog.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
i have just discovered this challenge:D well here is my first post in photo challenge:
http://travelphotocorner.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
i hope i dodnt forget anything to add…
I just started my blog and decided to give the weekly photo challenge a try. I hope you like mine.
http://doityourselfish.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I never do more than one entry, but I couldn’t resist these shots when I saw them today. My lucky lizard entry for silhouette (#2).
http://youthinkyoucanblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/lucky-the-lizard/
Here is the link to my Photo challenge entry: silhouette: glacier Lake
I am not sure i am doing this correctly, so I would appreciate confirmation that this went through. Thank you.
http://bcijo.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-c…nge-silhouette/
Shadows of life
http://theinfinitejourneyblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/shadows-of-life/
is there a certain time that this photo challenge closes?
@The Infinite Joy – more details in the post, but each photo challenge lasts the week – the post will close to comments and pingbacks when the next challenge is posted (tomorrow, Friday).
this is mine.
https://hikariazzahirah.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
in last minutes… -_____-”
http://menalarasati.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Hope i am not too late. Here’s my entry anyways http://wp.me/sDDSF-phase
I allready took some silhouette shots in the past, but I think that these are my best:
http://camperfoelie.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/de-blankenbergse-zee/
i hope you like mine….
http://dinishots.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Hi! Here’s my first entry: http://screwiness-o-rama.com/2012/10/22/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
…and my second one: http://screwiness-o-rama.com/2012/10/23/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2/
Cheers
Heres my entry, didn’t come out quit how I was expecting, but then they never do!
http://colourlesscity.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
always: http://yichinglin.com/2012/10/25/bird-on-a-wire/#comment-11947
Here’s a silhouette from New England! http://jelillie.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://kasturika.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/the-broken-tree/
This isn’t really a photograph – it is a sketch, which I photographed. This week’s photo challenge inspired me to write a short post, and draw something for it as well…
My “silhouette” shot: http://littletwofeet.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My entry this week… hope you like it:
http://xerith.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I always wonder who are the ones who scroll through 990 comments above mine to reach my comment… coincidence? (or just persistence on your part?)
never hurts to share!
BTW like how you have the discipline to post regularly… and able to generate so much feedback for every single post. Great job.
BTW, my shared photo happens to be taken at the Colosseum too… do you recognize the place?
Wow! That’s a great perspective. I don’t get inside the Colosseum much!
On Monday, October 29, Turkey celebrates the founder of the Turkish secular democratic republic, Ataturk. I snapped an amazing photo of his silhouette carved into a marble hillside near Izmir, Turkey: http://lonnalisawilliams.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
A 2nd submission from me! first time ever!
http://smallhousebiggarden.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2nd-submission/
http://moments2capture.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-3/
Here is my silhouette for the week!
http://iamontherun.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Sometimes a silhouette reminds me that we are here for only a whisper in time. This is my “Window in the Skies” silhouette! http://u2areloved.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challengesilhouette/
A romantic walk… The setting autumn sun… Lovely silhouettes
http://seeloveremember.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Looking good:
http://thriftyfinn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://iiteeeestudents.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Thanks for coming up with such new themes , it really helps me exploring more …
One more from us here: http://windagainstcurrent.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-sunday-post-city-silhouette/
Daily changes at sunset makes beautiful silhouettes…
http://yablogtherapy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Check out some people canning meat in the weekly photo challenge of “silhouette” at http://wendylnugent.wordpress.com/.
I’m not sure if it’s necessary, or desirable, to post a link here but here it is. I hope you enjoy.
http://skidaddy.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Are we allowed multiple entries if we feel we have more than one shot?
@SkiDaddy – if you publish more than one new post on the challenge’s theme, feel free to post them. But not too many
– there will be a new one every week!
Now I know about silhouette pictures. Cool challenge!! Attached is my entry.
http://dmooncrab.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2/
Here is my entry
http://yukimba17.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouete/
http://postadaychallenge2011.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-sildeshow/
Here’s a really late entry from Rapallo, Italy.
http://scottseyephotos.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
here is mine
http://yukimba17.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouete/
Here’s a very late entry from Rapallo, Italy taken last week.
http://scottseyephotos.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Better late than never this time i guess… I actually have 2 silouette shots in this post from the beach… http://scottfillmer.com/2012/10/24/last-breath-of-summer-from-a-beach-in-gulf-shores/
Hmm…and I wasn’t going to participate this week. http://turnaroundandswim.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Just in time. Fishing boats in Valdez, Alaska.
http://farnorthlight.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
This is my first submit for weekly photo challenge.
http://enkoos.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhoutte/
Sunrise at the beach often brings into view skies of beautiful cloud silhouettes. My view is shown here!
http://smithwatsonphotography.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I’m back! Here’s my entry in a last minute
:
http://godslover.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s my silhouette photo http://wp.me/pRM20-JY
I submitted an entry but I don’t see it.
A Scottish themed silhouette and a short reflection on our recent referendum. Thanks for the topic suggestion! http://luckydiplife.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Beautiful post for the silhouette, Sara. Here is my entry: http://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/wpc-silhouette/
A mix between macro and silhouette. Hope you enjoy!!
http://randomroamings.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s my entry, a silhouette taken at my favorite music festival!
Whoops! Forgot to add the link; http://wp.me/p2KbPp-5f
took this shot in cappadocia, turkey while i was in a hot air balloon!
http://mk17design.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/