The first image below is my entry for this week's shadow contest. Show Me A Shadow is the weekly contest created by @melinda010100, judged by @annephilbrick, and brought to you by the Shadow Hunters Community - hive-179017. If you want to show off your shadow photos, you will find details on this week's SMASh contest here.

This is a selfie-shadow, captured while praying my rosary. I pray the rosary daily and, if the sun is shining, I tend to pray the rosary on my back porch while getting some sun. It takes me 20 minutes to pray the rosary, so I sun my back for ten minutes and my front for ten more. I prefer to pray the rosary in Latin, a fact that probably lands me on an FBI watchlist. The rosary itself was labeled as "extremist" in The Atlantic magazine last summer.

Recently I've started making rosaries. I especially like to make paracord rosaries like those made by Rugged Rosaries. Here are some shadows cast by a few of my handmade rosaries.