What’s with the creepy maniacal severed clown head? Who’s the guy holding it and why is he holding it? Not to worry. The creepy mask was just a prop used in a photography workshop on shadows and silhouettes at the Lincoln Hills Photography Club a couple of days ago. The guy in the colorful shirt is my friend Truman, a talented photographer who often serves as the Master of Ceremonies at photography events in my area. His voice projects without a microphone but he sometimes uses one if he’s being recorded as in this shot. I thought that showing the microphone in the image depicted his Master of Ceremonies image well. He just happened to be holding the creepy mask, which, by the way, is his and it and other odd props show up on occasion in unexpected locales in his images. The challenge from the workshop was to do something imaginative with the silhouette and shadow images we captured during the morning session, including using sky replacement in Photoshop. This shot of Truman is one I took during the workshop. It is obviously neither a shadow nor a silhouette but it did seem to me to be a candidate for sky replacement so I placed Truman in front of the sky over Palouse Falls in a shot I took a couple of months ago.