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Telling the time from a shadow
Shadows are clocks. Use their length and direction to test when a photo was really taken — and catch captions that lie about the time of day.
In this note
- Why shadow length tracks the sun’s height
- Morning vs afternoon shadow direction
- Using shadows to test a claim, not to guess a minute