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Finding Everyday Shadows

An Easy Challenge To Kickstart Your Creativity

3 min readJul 21, 2025

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Lamp shadows — ©Lauri Novak

Sometimes we need to do something simple to get our creative brain in gear.

When I was researching ideas for photography challenges, I thought that maybe we should be creative, simple and easy. Nothing too thought-provoking and something that can be fun and easy to try. I’ll save the deep-thought challenges for other stories.

Chair shadows — ©Lauri Novak

Challenge: Everyday Shadows

This is something I’ve been doing myself for a few years. It helps you engage with the light, shapes and shadows around you. What is photography but capturing the light, shapes and shadows we see?

This is something that you can do no matter where you are. I am constantly grabbing my phone when I see shadows around my house. If you’re not home, look for shadows on the street, in a store, cafe, coffee shop or in an airport if that’s where you are.

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Airport Escalator Shadows — ©Lauri Novak

Practice seeing

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Fine art photographer, inspirer and author. Editor at Full Frame. First published book: https://laurinovak.com/polar-opposites-book/

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