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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Here’s mine..
http://selaksakata.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
You will find my little effort here:
http://kragenhai.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/silhouettes-and-sunsets/
An enjoyable theme this week…as viewed from over the peaceful lake: http://wp.me/p1RzUf-1DI
Thanks!
Hello Everyone!
Brrrrrrrr – here’s mine: http://knowledgeknut.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
KnowledgeKnut
Silhouette of the royal coachman…
http://fotosigoese.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I present my favorite Silhouette
http://sophialorenabenjamin.wordpress.com/
Silhouettes while looking out my front door on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Enjoy the view as much as I do. http://retirenicaragua.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouettes/
Meet my cat, Iori. http://joyeesbraincrumbs.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s my entry for this challenge and hope it’s not too late.
Here you go….Silhouette……all the way from Dubai ^__^
http://aysabaw.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-sunset-and-shadows/
Beautiful photo. Here is mine from a trip to the US: http://teedeevee.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
You captured what US stands for in just one picture. Awesome
yay! I like this week’s challenge.
http://sannetiagostory.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Good one! My entry: http://maddyspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
back to the weekly photo challenge after a short while away…
here’s my post for this weeks challenge..
http://4otomo.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://justfletcher.wordpress.com/
@melouisef – Make sure you post the link to the exact blog post URL so people can find it later, and as your new content shows up on the front page of your site!
My silhouette photo:
Fishermen casting their nets at Patnem Beach, India.
http://klaasp.wordpress.com/
@klaasp – Make sure you post the link to the exact blog post URL so people can find it later, and as your new content shows up on the front page of your site!
Ok! This is the permanent link:
http://klaasp.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Great challenge! here’s mine the blue mosque Istanbul http://citylifepicture.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
What a cool challenge! I captured a strange structure in South Korea! http://annetjiesepoems.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s my contribution…
http://ogenenorentekort.blogspot.nl/2012/10/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette_20.html
Oooh! Silhouette! Yes! http://wp.me/p2oZQI-rZ
It’s a wonderful theme and here is my take http://manivelgk.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
The Petronas Towers are becoming something of a muse for my photography…
http://rightinfrontofme.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/wordpress-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Hi, here is mine, done over a year ago: http://riinavaikmaa.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Wonderful challenge – again. Here´s my entry
http://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Hello, here’s my contribution for this week’s challenge. http://busyellebee.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I like silhouettes here is number 2: http://chrisbreebaart.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2/
http://arjungabriel.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Love the theme this week
My little ‘Silhouette’ is here http://poppytump.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-challenge-silhouette/
Here is my attempt at a silhouette http://everyphototellsastory.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I have combined 3 photo challenges into one post. Check out the silhouettes, couples and things that bring a smile to my face here…. at CTB
https://canadiantravelbugs.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-couples-smiles/
Here’s mine
http://dorysworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here you go:
http://pancakeashes.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
enjoy
here’s mine: https://joknut.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://shutterghost.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s my…silhouette.Enjoy!
http://wp.me/p1ZuYK-qW
My humble efforts:
http://ulstermanabroad.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Architectural Silhouettes. Enjoy!
http://yousufbawany.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
my contribution to this weeks beautiful challenge
http://wp.me/pZwzb-1fg
Oh India, your sunsets make the most amazing silhouette’s!
Please take the time to look – there is something magical about the silhouette’s at Juhu Beach.
http://airstreamfamily.com.au/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-sunset-silhouettes/
Mine is an icon of giant proportions!
http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silohouette/
My contribution to this week’s challenge: http://collinesblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
This was a fun one. Here’s my post:
http://poetrycurator.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
For this week’s challenge, I want to give a postcard to one of those who will guess correctly where my silhouette photo was taken. Happy weekend!
http://goo.gl/yovYJ
Crane silhouettes
http://mjspringett.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challengesilhouette/
thanks MJ
Silhouette it is http://wibrpic.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here’s mine, on the island:http://www.nantuckettiechic.com/2012/10/442-duck-silhouette.html
love the new challenge! here’s my silhouette…in sunset….http://xristinamaria.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-sunset/ “,)
just how much i love silhouettes? much! that’s why i’ve updated my post (tmi: these were taken at the same place and at the same time. so i figured, why not?) http://xristinamaria.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-sunset/
I found something suitable
http://frouk.net/?p=234
Here is my entry! http://fliesovernebraska.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
A couple of old pictures for me:
http://sued51too.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Wow, some fantastic photos this week – here are mine
http://40again.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My entry http://carramedia.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/ …
Enjoy!
What a difficult challenge this week! Arg. Here’s my entry: http://laavventura.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Pardon me for the encore post, but I just couldn’t resist: http://thepalladiantraveler.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-portico-vew-from-portovenere/
A twice-a-day phenomenon:
http://berkshireviews.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Hi all, first time posting to the Weekly Challenge and have just started the post a day venture, should be fun!
Anyway, here’s my entry (Storm…er…Clone Trooper anyone?)…
http://williamsdavid.me/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here is mine for thirdeyeworld:
http://thethirdeyeworld.com/2012/10/20/mountain-silhouette/
http://aremarkyoumade.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Here is my participation in this Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette,
http://zainabdullah.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My entry in this week’s challenge….Silhouette: Dawn and Dusk
http://psyched013.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-dawn-and-dusk/
At sunset: http://jumbledcontentsofmyhead.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Y’know, it’s darker in a stable than I realized (or: thanggod for the weekly photo challenge):
http://luddyslens.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/silhouettes-for-horse-people/
Hi, here is mine…
https://aanegoro.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://littlemissbrighteyes.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
it’s silly, but this is my version.
From a balloon festival:
http://marantophotography.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Cheers!
Love this challenge & all the great submissions! Here’s my own… http://whymichigan.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://flyforicarus.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/silhouettes-a-wordpress-photo-challenge/
Love this photo challenge theme!
A parachute sinking behind the cornfields. http://mlissabeth.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silouet/
Well, here’s mine:
http://irvent.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
nybodphoto.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Great challenge! Here’s mine: http://newsofthetimes.org/2012/10/20/wordpress-weekly-photo-challenge-silhouettes-and-weekly-travel-theme-couples/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette Desert delights
http://patriciaddrury.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2/
Enjoying everyone’s Silhouettes. Here’s mine. http://tinyurl.com/9fyvakv
Here’s my entry of a bird flying along the ocean shore: http://wp.me/pOicG-6Q
lots of them at the Tate: http://woodrabbitjourney.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
Silhouette challenge part 2: When I went to Cambodia. http://annetjiesepoems.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/rising-with-the-crickets-in-cambodia/
http://purplerosemary.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
here’s mine: http://greatgreths.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://shutterghost.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
a statues silhouette at dawn
Silhouettes often show what bright light is able to hide.
http://yarnspinnerr.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My first entry in the Weekly Photo Callenge ever!
http://tammytalar.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-post-challenge-silhouettes/
Excited!
Please leave a comment!
Best regards, Tammy
beaches and mountains and fire, oh my!
http://luluseestheworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
this one taken at sunset in antalya, turkey.
http://plaridel.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://mostlymonochrome.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/silhouette/
A couple of silhouettes,
Here’s our submission, taken from our latest trip to Italy!
http://trailofcrumbsblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My photos are city silhouettes on a rainy day: http://canoecommunications.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-city-silhouettes/
My silhouette: Mother and Daughter Eskimo Kiss During Sunset:
http://intertwingled.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
I’m back in business, here is mine for this week.
http://asaenz.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
i am not a photographer and am clearly not the one taking most of these pictures i am in… and so i am not sure if i fully grasp the idea of silhouette, but these three pics were the ones that screamed it loudest at me as i was trying to put something together… would appreciate feedback of how much i missed the topic:
http://brettfish.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette
who are you referring to Villager? Not me i hope, cos i just posted that!
http://playamart.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/silhouette-wordpress-weekly-photo-challenge/
Here are some images of a current palm-thatch and bamboo roof project !in Ecuador!
The challenge for me was pulling myself away from the project!
Z
Silhouette on Sundak Beach, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia http://defilailafazr.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
A different kind of silhouette.
http://youthinkyoucanblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
My silhouette is ready.
http://geitd.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
again, LOVE the challenge! I am so glad you do these because it helps me creatively!
http://artbea.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
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Sorry for repost, but original post was wrong. Thanks for letting me know Hamburg. Here’s the correct link http://barbaramelnikcarson.com/blog/
Faded memory: http://mothergrogan.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
http://jvierephoto.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
At the tail end of the week!
http://sailsoutherncal.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-lands-end/
Unusual sunset creates a pretty silhouette.
http://gobetweenflames.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/