* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #787 / Revived #007 on 2023 05 17 *

I've never done street photography, but your photo and words help me understand the appeal and the depth of the stories you can capture.

Otherworldly, unsettling. I'm drawn to each vignette. I must know their stories!

The lines appear quite straight 😂 Cooperative birds = three elements that don't fit. Eye-catching!

I want to visit your warm and welcoming ancestral home. It has been a joy to follow your journey - through your compelling photography - of the reclamation of its character. So much love everywhere!

Still standing

Thanks very much, Roel.

Appreciate your time, Chris!

I wanted to show the different shades between eucalypts and pines.

I like this very much. For composition, your low angle of view and empty sky background makes the subject stand out wonderfully. Nature is awesome and resilient.

Mission accomplished! A bonus for me is the slope of the brighter trees + the shadows between their very straight trunks. Nicely seen and composed.

I found this a few days ago but was already too dark. So I set out today in good light but spent too much time on other shots, so it was already tough - but I wanted to post it.
It's part of the roots of a big old gum felled years ago for a pine plantation, and perhaps too big too move.

Thanks Linda,
I am guessing he lost his top in a storm quite some years back. Would have been at least 1.5 times that height. Although eucalypts drop seeds, they also have the capacity to grow new shoots from under their bark.

Nice Brian very nice, only I personally remove that rope like young tree on the right side, but that is just a choice everyone has too made for themselves.

Lou

Still standing as we all are 😎
Nice find Bryan and a good angle.

Lou

Great shot. Two faces of cycling.
The lean of the competitor and his bike, the foreshortening , the stronger colours and the diagonal lines all suggest speed and balance. Behind him rider two's upright posture and almost horizontal line suggest calm. Rider one approaches the left edge of the frame and threatens to spill out. Rider two has lots of space before him. I disagree with minniev re. the direction of rider two's eyes. His eyes are higher and take in the world before him. and the greenery above. Rider 1 necessarily has a far narrower view of the world, he has to concentrate on the road surface.

Might you and Lou have established our first NSFW offerings? I'm sure both would have been outlawed in some US states.

Yes, you did find an original view that focuses on an "area of interest" that indeed explained the skill of the sculptor. Complete with lines that lead us, well, everywhere. Well seen. And only monochrome could do it justice.

Sometimes we have, over the years, noted that a week's thread will take on a theme of its own with no intent by the participants. We will begin to find clues in the recurrence of subjects, emotions, settings. This week's unspoken themes may be Lines and Ladies. Yours falls in the Lines group unless the birds are ladies which isn't clear. The interest in this image is that the lines are all askew. They are not parallel and few are perpendicular. They only lead to each other. Then to throw us a curve, there's that curve of a vent. Even the birds are askew. I like its geometry!