* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #881 / Revived #101 on 2025 03 05*

A busy but fascinating architectural abstract with some art thrown in on the side. Great geometric lines and complementary colors (blues and yellow) with touches of other primary colors as accents.

So, it's architectural abstract week! And complementary blue and yellow week (Ukraine is much on our minds). Great shapes. I especially like the first one with the blue-bedecked human under the blue sky and encircled by the yellow geometric shape of the structure.

And still more architectural abstracts! Love this concept of the spiral. I agree with Jonas that your camera might have sold you short on these good ideas. The first would be a tricky exposure anyway with so much range of tonality from light to dark. It's a great composition and it works even with the loss of detail but you'd have more options with a different exposure or even a blend of 2-3 exposures to capture the range. The second one has its wonderful Fibonacci spiral cut off, but Jonas has given it back to you with help from AI which is pretty remarkable. I have no compunctions about using AI in this case, though I have reservations about it in some situations. (And in some it isn't convincing anyway).

Well we are still on abstract week it seems, and I'm loving this one. I adore ice. It is a shame it's been very cold here off and on all winter but never long enough too get ice photos. This one is like a delicate etching. The colors imply cold as well. The art work it creates is like a murmuration of icy birds. Very nice.

And even more architectural abstracts, again with the blue and yellow theme. I love the bridge pictures, with all that delicate suspension work. I like both versions, the standard and the enhanced. And I am quite sure I would like them as a monochrome set. Modern architecture looks especially nice in black and white worked on with luminosity masks. Fine compositions of excellent subjects.

Little houses on the hillside, little houses made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same. (I am old so I remember this song).

Great geometry here with all those receding/overlapping triangles that may just keep going forever in both directions. Nice light brings out a rich color palette of peach and blue.

This has wonderful pastel colors and lines, but what makes the shot is the pair of fishermen silhouetted in striking detail in just the right place.

And yet another abstract-ish image, well spotted and eye catching. We virtually/visually ride that readily available bicycle around the triangle following the lines then escape the frame upper right, having traversed the whole array. Nice (spontaneous) catch!

(It would be so boring if we only took planned photographs, wouldn't it?)

Should we talk about the monument or the photos?
Perhaps there is symbolism with meaning here? I don't see it. The structure looks tortured and complex without reason? As a pure shape it doesn't appeal to me either. I guess it provides a frame for viewing a pleasant stretch of beach that I'd prefer to see without it.
As a photo, I like 3 best. The gold/brown shape takes up more of the complementing dark blue sky and the wa lens and angle gives a dramatic point to the top. The reflection in the water edge plus the wave edge and the bands of sand, all connect up to the viewer so we feel more connected to the structure.

Excellent supporting narrative for the Westerpunt shots, @RoelHendrickx !

It's useful to look at these shots along with those from last week. Together we get a better grasp of the size and unusual nature of the structure. Without your notes I'd have had no idea about what I am looking at here, even though I can just make out a figure in each. Ripping down the slide would be quite an experience. I'd have been glad it was closed and I didn't have to chicken out.
Is the crop on the second shot deliberate? Matching looking up and down shots seems like a good way to interpret the building. I prefer the ink/blue /blacks of the second shot.

A temperature of -20C with frost to match is beyond my experience. I enjoyed looking at the crystals up close. The colours plus dark and light areas behind the crystals show the crystals off.

A message and moment where needing to work a little at figuring things out, makes the image better.

Dawn Watching

This was taken during our Summer holiday on the Baltic coast in Germany. I was up before dawn to get some photography time, before the all-embracing demands of a family holiday with grand-children.

Dream like shot. Early morning atmosphere of peace and quiet and watching sun rise is indeed a blessing.

Thank you.

I'm so old I remember it being performed by the songwriter Pete Seegerr on a tour of Australia.
As minniev says. Plus a noting of the shadow/sunlight faces that makes the sawtooth pattern stand out.