Against the Light

I spent a few days in Breda visiting the city. I mostly walked through Valkenberg, the largest city park there, to see what I could do with light and dark. In a park like that, you have a lot of trees that create shaded spots when the sun is shining. A fun thing to photograph is the play of light and dark, of sunlight and shadow. You wait until someone passes by, until that person is walking right in the sunlight. Their head, their upper body, or at least part of their body is lit, while other parts of the photo are in shadows. That gives a nice contrast. I took a few photos like that. Further along the road, I saw another interesting shot. About a hundred meters away, a man was sitting on a bench listening to music, which you could tell from the AirPods in his ears. From my point of view, behind the man on the bench, there was a fountain bathing in sunlight. Because the light came from behind the fountain, I was shooting against the light. That turned the man and the bench into a…