announcing the winners of the 22nd guess the shadow contest!!

50% of the beneficiary rewards to this post go in support of #hive-179017!

mostly merry @melinda010100 provides the prizes: 10 HIVE and 400 POINTS!!! please join me in lavishing copious thanks on her.

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be sure to check out the original contest post with all the great replies and comments with drawings and gifs that really make the contest fun and interesting. here's the link:
@eolianpariah/announcing-the-22nd-guess-the

anybody who has followed my posts in this community knows that i live partly in norway and partly in india but i am originally from the usa. they also know that not everything i write about the judges in this contest is strictly factual. earlier i introduced the mascot for this contest, a black labrador retriever named shadow. a while back shadow received a visit from her companion ginger at her home outside of boston.
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they happily agreed to be your judges this week but the task proved to be more exhausting than they anticipated so they took a well earned nap afterwards. some contestants may find the above image quite odd and perhaps even slightly disturbing. now here is a true story which demonstrates the cultural differences of the two worlds i live in and perhaps provides a clue as to why i live where i do.

when i visit the usa i usually stay a few days with my mother at shadow's house.
on one such visit i had been out doing various errands and when i returned two of my brothers and their families had arrived. they were all sitting and talking in the tv room which has two sofas and two chairs all of which were occupied. had this been india i could have sat comfortably on the floor which would have been completely normal though one of the younger hosts would surely have insisted i take their seat. however in this house people, especially adults sitting on the floor is not normal so i urged shadow to offer her seat. she didn't seem to mind being relegated to the floor in the least but my mother took great offense at my action. without saying a word she left the room and didn't return the entire evening.

now for the prizes
3 Hive to @moon-city for:
Here is my theory: A saw tool is jammed inside of a large mailbox. At the end of the saw tool is a beak of a bird because the tool man who made this tool loved birds so he decided to make himself a custom saw tool which has a bird beak attached to it. Now at the bottom of the mailbox, another saw tool is jammed deeply inside. Remember earlier when I said that the guy loves birds, well he decided to make this second saw tool with a bird shape at the end. Are you confused by all of this? I made a semi-decent-ish-slightly crappy drawing.

2 Hive to @sayury for:
It is the photo of a prince who comes in a truck to rescue his enchanted princess. The king have her locked up in a tower. A love story similar to Rapunzel's but with the aggravation that the princess does not have long hair. The prince brings a long fire ladder in the truck. With it he will rescue her, he will take her to his kingdom and they will be happy forever.

1 Hive each to
@atlantiss for: I'm guessing it is the front part of a tractor
Here is a quick doodle of my guess

@omaira74 for: Hi all, it looks like a park bench seat...hahahah it was captured when the sun wanted to sit down, that's why it made this strange shadow.

@jesustiano for: I think it is... some form of an exaust of a wood burner machine, it looks like the output of a sawmill burner to me to be more specific :)

100 Points each to
@hjrrodriguez for: that's the shadow on the front of a miniature train, which they're cleaning up after taking it out for a walk in the park today as a kid.

@wito7 for: Cleamnete you can see that it is Rambo's machine gun,but I am not sure if it is the machine gun of RamboI,RamboII,RamboIII,RamboIV or RamboV..but you can see that it belongs to Rambo Jajaja 🤣 This shadow left me raving 🤪😜🤔.

@brume7 for: It's a secret weapon of the Gestapo, be careful it's loaded😂 Ji,Ji

1 Hive each for engagement to
@nineclaws
@sofs-su

and last but far from least 5 HIVE venwood prize to @nineclaws for:
This is a shadow of the highest peak attainable by humanity in this world. There is a long path to reach the stairway bridge shown in the left side of the shadow. The number of steps on the stairway bridge is countless and solely dependent on where the person is in their journey. The stairway curves around the first of two stone structures at the summit.

There is a small oval opening where the stairway ends. One must drop through this opening, while spinning in a spiral that goes down, down, to the deepest, darkest place that only some are able to reach. There is no way to ascend the second building in the far right without going through this process.

If one survives this deep spiral dive and lets go of all that is illusion, one is immediately transported up out of the darkness to the first oval opening in the second building. At this point, one has developed the vision to see through all illusions; however, there is additional effort that must be made to complete cleaving away the old remaining remnants before moving to the upper most oval opening in the second building. It is a time to practice a different way of walking in the world, somewhat similar to becoming a child and learning anew.

Upon full realization of one’s growth and who one truly is, one is transported to the very top point of the second building, which is shown in the rounded point of the shadow here. This spot has no oval opening, since it is a doorway to another existence that remains unknown until one exits this realm.

that's it for now
remember to join in the new contest which has already begun here:
@eolianpariah/announcing-the-22nd-guess-the
and since you're in the neighborhood check out the other great contests:

@melinda010100/shadow-hunters-contest-round-180

@annephilbrick/reflection-hunters-contest--round-28

and this week's special contest from galenkp
@galenkp/shadows-and-reflections-a-contest-announcement

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