Contrasts. This image of graffiti by the Thames near Oxford does not show the traffic that - day and night - stream past on the bridge, carrying the congested Eastern Bypass over the shadow, at first light, seems to fit in rather well with the You may be wondering why I have two shadows. Easy. The bottom one is a direct shadow from the early sun creeping below the bridge; the upper, mottled one is from sun reflecting off the ripped surface of the river. Optics in

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Photo credit: © Jon Bower / Alamy / Afripics
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