Contre-jour photograph...featured picture on Wikipedia home page today

[Mark Kohut]

                Today's featured picture                An example of contre-jour (French for "against the day light") photography, when the camera is pointing towards the light source. In this picture, the light reflecting off the ground within the tunnel gives depth to an otherwise two-dimensional image. Image taken in São Martinho do Porto, west coast of Portugal, 1968.
  Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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