Shadow
It’s been a while. It’s great to be back and catching up on my long abandoned reader.
Life sometimes caught up with us and other days they seem to run us over. But, here I am and it surely is great to be back.
This week’s photo challenge, Shadow, can conjure many different meanings. For me, shadow means a literal dark reflection of the objects on the photo I took on a recent walk along Cairns’ marina.
On the other hand these structure on the marina are also shadows of their past life: the old wharf. In the 1900s these timber wharves served as berths for ships and the entry to the Great Barrier Reef. The old timber wharves were replaced with sturdy reinforced concrete ports to accomodate all the larger ships bringing in tourists and commerce to Cairns.
The Trinity Wharf boardwalk is a shadow of its past. It stands proud and beautiful. On the old poles there are Aboriginal Australian stories and peepholes that you can look through and see key areas along the harbour beyond.
Most shadows may be dark but they can have many meanings.
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