On the 15th of May, in the year of our lord 2024 ... (Enlargeable)... boats were burning in the harbour of Medulin, the small town where I live. (Enlargeable)Speedboats, sailboats, excursion boats; all fine, expensive nautical stuff. A few million euros went up in smoke that day.

I'm rarely focused on shadows while chasing spiders and insects and exploring the tiny details in nature around me, but sometimes, a shadow confidently enters the scene and steals the show. (Enlargeable)In today's post, I'll show you a few tiny shadows I photographed in the early summer of 2024. The one shown in the opening photograph is the entry for the contest, and ...

It happened in 2024. The year of my most intense absence and inactivity here on Hive. The weather was cold but mostly sunny at the end of January when the photographs for this post were taken. (Enlargeable)I had to do some work in the city, the city of Pula, of course, on the 22nd of January, and when everything was done, I was ready to go for a relaxed walk somewhere in the suburbs.

(Enlargeable) (Enlargeable)The partially related Illustrations/animations are in all segments, my work. (Enlargeable)I designed the bunnies, it was me who drew everything in Adobe Illustrator and then animated the sequences in some free program for animation. It wasn't some lazy automated thing - believe it or not, it required work just like stuff one draws on paper or some other non-digital surface. AI? Yeah, sure - forget it! I drew this stuff in 2019, my first year on Hive ... which was Steemit back then, to be honest ... and then created the animated GIFs a year or two later.

The weather was cloudy. It looked like it could start raining very soon when I left the house that morning. (Enlargeable)The date was the 28th of February 2024, and it was time for me to do some small repairs on my old car before taking it to the MOT test station. While waiting for the repairs to be done, I spent some time walking around the suburban neighborhood of Veli Vrh in Pula. If you are one of my more or less regular followers here on Hive, you probably noticed that the city of Pula appears very often in my posts. That's becouse Pula is the nearest city to the place where I live. There isn't much I can do in my small hometown besides taking a leisurely walk, buying the common supermarket stuff in one of the two local supermarkets, or going to a restaurant or a bar. For anything slightly more unusual than that, I have to drive about ten kilometers to the nearest city.

Yeah, I mean ... I smoked me some good lettuce and I started thinking a bit about the world and all that stuff, you know ... and ... look, the Earth was flat once upon a time ... but it was a looong, very damn long time ago, nofuckingone remembers those times becouse there wasn't anyone around, I suppose ... yeah ... anyway, the Earth was flat but then got inflated, like a lovely oversized balloon made for children. You see - that explains everything. We could make the earth flat again, sure ... but why? The round Earth is much more fun. You can spin it, it could bounce, and do all sorts of crazy stuff. A flat Earth is flat on quite a few levels and therefore ill-suited for fun in space.