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

Capricious North Sea with waves crashing over the pier and very suitable for a suitable shot with old three and four masters.
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Thanks for looking, Lou

Wow - a fantastic shot! I really like the cold tones and while my eye doesn't find a clear point to focus on here, it doesn't matter, because to me the image perfectly conveys the essence of sea and wind and our endless struggle as humans to challenge it.

Thank you for the critique .. indeed there is a train on this track ... but I wasn't thinking about night!!! not really a consideration ... (for me .. as for your and others reading I'm always interested .... )

WhyNot

Icy cold blue everywhere. Danger and chaos everywhere excent the vertical lines of the ships - they are all that's keeping me from getting seasick. Love it!

It is amazing how we can find images in our everyday life when we have the eyes to see them. I do agree that correcting the lamp for its rightward list helps the image, especially for those of us that are bothered by geometry problems (I confess, I often am). The lines dominate the image and are the strongest of the compositional elements but you can't discount the triangles, too - there's quite a few in there. Converting this to a high contrast dramatic monochrome allows you to bring out those shapes and patterns while using the whole tonal range.

Your trees are lovely captures. I see nothing wrong with the sharpness of the first one, and if noise is worrisome, a noise removal software will help you out. They are, I think, portraits, the first classic and the second environmental. The second is a strange specimen. I'm not sure what has happened here, but it resembles fruit trees that have been grafted. It seems that an old dying tree has spawned a new offspring that is now thriving. Nature is full of wonders, and we are privileged to document it.

These things are quite wonderful photo subjects. You have a full classic portrait of one, well taken, in all its rusty glory. I'd encourage you to shoot it again and again and try to make each shot a little different. You'll find dozens of different compositions in it, from different angles, different distances, different zooms, all of it, parts of it, different processing, etc. Great subject for study.
We don't have many of these around where I live but I'll pull off the road in a heartbeat if I find one.

Triceratops? That's a beautiful formation. A pretty wonderful piece of sculpture just as is.

A couple of thoughts that are only partly to do with critiquing the image. I'm in Sicily. Eucalyptus trees everywhere. As a re many more Australian native plants, especially those with dramatic flowers. They seem to do well here and I don't blame, it's a fabulous place to be.
I get suspicious of scenes like the one you are showing. Huge swathes of Australian native forest (and the wildlife that lives in them) have been destroyed with narrow strips of eucalypts left along the roadsides. As we drive past, this disguises how much of the land is being destroyed.
As a result, when I look at this image, I see it differently to most viewers here. Your image shows the clear demarcation between native forest and the plantations. I looked at this and I got angry. Many things can make a good photograph. This time anger makes it a good photograph for me.
A further thought. You might consider posting less images per week. When I look at shots I want to do more than just tick a like box, I want to think about the what and why of the shots. It isn't possible to do this for your posts when there are a number of them.

No idea at all about what this is but it pleased me. The red, relatively focussed edged object becomes the subject because of the colour and sharper focus. The sort of corkscrew blur from it gives movement. I don't interpret this as a space vehicle of some sort rising from a distant world, but it gives something of the same feeling as those moments from sci fi films. There has been a breakthrough, something has gained release and freedom. I like non figurative images to provoke subjective responses in me like this.

Any chance you'd share? Got 7000+ images for a pano and I keep crashing PS.

The composting program that I wrote is poorly documented and quite specialized. I have to figure out how to use it all over again every time I open it. And the processing needs to be varies for each image. So, it's definitely not ready for prime time. Sorry.

It's what I like in street photography too.
It's a good example of how an image can't exist objectively. If you follow news reports from India, you have to be aware of current tensions (well, there are always tensions on this matter in India) between the sexes and castes and religions. In this image, the differences in clothes suggests that the boundaries are being crossed. The differences in height and body posture suggest dominance. The composition places the two men in contrasting blocks that outlines them clearly. The women merge into their background. The clothing of the men indicates different rank but the attitude to the women is the same.
We may not be interpreting the moment accurately but it is very unsettling.

Wow! Did you try PT-GUI? How big are the images? Maybe do it in sections and stitch the sections?

This is striking but I need to see it considerably bigger than I can get it here. I want to see the faces in more detail before I can begin to respond.

When I printed it, the print was 15 inches high (on 17-inch wide paper) and more than 6 feet long.

Another photo where the image draws responses from me based on prior knowledge. Magritte and Hitchcock. There's an incongruity of familiar shapes that challenges us to find meaning. The pipe is close enough to a ? as well. Then I'm waiting for a couple more birds to land, than a couple more......Photogaphy as whimsical brain teasers. We don't always have to have specific correct answers.

Glorious.
Warm and mellow as befitting a family home with all those years behind it. The front to back lines take us through the items and we can explore each one of the pieces and we know there will be stories with each. Your lighting is perfect. The outside beckons and is full of promise but we can still make out the inside details.
The lines leading to the door invite us into a garden that we can be confident will have the same country pleasures as the interior.
The repeating rectangular shapes are a little masterpiece of their own.