At dusk, Lions Lighthouse and palm trees are silhouetted against a darker sky.
Lions Lighthouse
We end our series of unusual images of shooting against the light creating traditional silhouettes or a combination of black foregrounds and colorful backgrounds. Here is a normal black silhouette – an image of a person, animal, bird, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black.

An unusual composition of shooting against the light with a lighted sky, but creating silhouettes of domed buildings and a lamp post in Munich, Germany. The splashing naturally lighted water in the foreground adds an interesting element to the image.

Shooting against the light at a colorful sunset in Hickory, North Carolina, the trees and rays of the sun appear as silhouettes

As an experiment of shooting against the sun at a beach in Mandvi, Gujarat, India, it was surprising to see silhouette-like images of animals, people and wooden cabana.

Shot against the sun in the blue sky created silhouette-like portrayal of saguaros.

This image creates, while shooting against the sun of a water fountain, silhouette of the building but highlighting the spurting water and reflections

Shooting against a sunrise viewing from Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park in Maine create somewhat silhouettes of people watching the rising sun

Shooting in winter against a sun creates tree silhouettes in this image

Not a true silhouette, but this image shot against a sunset in Santa Monica, California creates silhouettes of a bird, tree and a fence.

The evening sun lights up the clouds in a magical way and also creating a silhouette of the mountains

We end our series of images from San Francisco – The Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, and Golden Gate Bridge – with a silhouette of the city skyline.

Striking silhouettes of the pier and people created by the sunrise at Sunset Beach, North Carolina


The sun has set at Sunset Beach, North Carolina and beach-goers walk home silhouetted by the sunset.


At a distance of 750 meters from Somnath Temple is the coast of the Arabian Sea. Here are images of the sunset with concrete ocean barriers, to protect the temple, partially silhouetted against the sun.



We end the series of images from Grand Teton National Park with silhouettes of the mountains with a few lingering clouds in a blue sky.
