* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #878 / Revived #098 on 2025 02 12*

Fascinating. A series would make a nice journalistic photo story. Excellent use of theatre lighting to work in behalf of your composition. The special treasure is the guy in the lower left corner lit in silhouette by the round spotlight.

It is the swirling side-lit wake of snow along the diagonal that makes this work. The contrast between light and dark hinges on that diagonal line, making it the most powerful force in the image, even more powerful than the skier. It works, also, to make the image even more panoramic, cropping some from the top to give even more emphasis to that line and removing the cables on the right edge.

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Like the side-lit snow in Fireplace's image, the light plays an important role in your image. The big yellow-orange cloud of concert effects is both backdrop and light source to lay down light and shadow and color on the performers. Like a lot of phone images, the detail in the performers' faces is weak when you zoom in, but that doesn't hinder my appreciation, which is based more on the overall effect rather than the individual details. Nicely caught.

I think dragonflies are your dam-birds. I never get tired of them.

The lacework wings are beautifully displayed in this one, Background bokeh is very pleasing.

I feel genuinly very moved by this. The contrast between the stark white birds, sharing a moment of tranquility contrasted against the harsh, industrial darkness of the dam. The storks stand out beautifully against the background, but there's continuity with the white foam on the the dark water. The diagonal line of the dam has a parallel in the left bird's neck also mirrored beautifully in the right bird's wing. which gives the image a sense of balance and implies an arrow shape pointing downwards. I really love fotographs of "ugly" human structures, especially when you can contrast them with some kind of moment of beauty.

No takers for the bikes or for the boats I think are hiding under all that snow. I like this image a lot. It has considerable balance because of the orderliness of the various vertical and diagonal rows of things starting with the reflections of the posts, and moving through the snowy walkways to the row of bikes to the trees themselves. Everything is tucked in its place in a visually satisfying manner. Well spotted.

I like the way you've positioned your shot using a 3/4 angle and with the statue against the elaborate architecture of that tower. The lighting of the statue gives plenty of contrast to make it stand out - almost a bit too much. I might experiment with lowering the highlights just a little, not enough to allow her to get lost in the background but to keep the brights on her arm from becoming too dominant. Nice work.

Hard to look at these smiles without smiling in response! A joyful conversation it appears. The expressions, the visor effect, the profile angle, the fluff of swept back hair, the straps on their "clothing", all in parallel. Though the colors are bright, cheery and summer-ish, I wonder how a higher key monochrome might work - it might isolate the two even further from the backdrop.

Impressive array of legos, more elaborate than I've ever seen. I'll have to share this with my young lego addict, who loves ambitious and detailed lego structures.

Thanks :-)
I like the suggestion to crop some more off the top and make it more panaramic

Maybe no bike riders but the black bikes and the white snow are most clement for a photographer.
The line of black bikes sitting on fresh snow is quite magical. It's visually attractive with the added kick of forlornness. We may have a new genre , The Abandoned Bike, to rival The Empty Bench. The winter trees tug at the heartstrings.
I tried a crop but after looking closely, I like your original better.

This is funny and I'm sure your three subjects are laughing as well.

Amazing it is. The line up of heads and beaks is perfection. Likewise the fanning of feathers.
A Valentine's Day triumph. Have you shown it to a greeting card maker? Seriously.

No, I know who she is. Growing up in Australia immediately after WW2, the voice was everywhere on the radio.
The lighting puzzles me. At first, I assumed this was infra red. The figure has become ghostly. I'm guessing that Our Gracie grew up in Rochdale in which case a point might be being made with the effect? If this isn't the case, I'd prefer it with the highlights reduced. The microphone is important. If the camera was a little more to the left it would have been a touch more isolated from the face. As it is they merge into each other a trifle too much.

Maybe I did not express myself well.
The photo shown here was NOT processed in-camera with the dramatic art filter.
It was processed only last Tuesday, in lightroom, starting from the RAW file.

I've retrieved the in-camera dramatic art filter conversion (of the exact same image) from my hard disk.
It looks like this (I haven't touched it anymore after the in-camera processing):

The clocktower is important in establishing the place and it gives a frame to Gracie. The small coat of arms is probably important too id identifying the tower.
I would have thought that both tower and the coat of arms would have been included with a very small movement to the left. Only just enough to moe the right edge of the mike to the right edge of the tower.
It's always easier to have profound thoughts like this when you aren't the one taking the shot. It happens all the time when I review my own shots.

I am glad you liked these. I have more pictures of Lego on Flickr. flic.kr/s/aHBqjC2K4P