* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #882 / Revived #102 on 2025 03 12*

Hands down the best interpretation. Bright enough to be enjoyed with just right amount of light. Excellent effort.

Great b&w image with some drama in the sky. Rope on the beach ties nicely with the boat. Very intriguing capture.

Hey Alan, you are not wrong at all. I think you are pushing me in the right direction and I can see I have been too defensive or passive when leaving the entrance as it was. Great work with lighten it up, Then of course i can't agree about everything. You have dragged the clarity a bit long to my taste and i have to think about the sky.
Overall, thanks again, really appreciated as you made the image interesting again!

Now this became a work in progress again. I'm half there, maybe not have the sky really this dark and maybe turn down the purple a bit more again. One difference compared to the first version is that i added some sharpening this time, I usually don't do that.

Well, I may slowly get there... The No person-series is interesting to me so I'll keep working on it.
Cheers!

Lily

Pow!

Rich

Thanks Pete. I agree :-)
Both photos were taken in the same place. The second photo was taken first, I was standing on a small pier with a few others waiting for that "last" sunset of the year..
It went down just a few minutes later and then nearly everyone left the pier.
Often after the sun has set the colours are even better,... As in this case too, looking in the opposite direction, 30 minutes after the first photo was taken, the magic really started, and it lit up those fantastic buidings for the second photo :-)

Impressive colours. The composition reminds me of an exploding firework.

A Photo Essay of Sorts: My Search For Forgotten People

My land is a share of a small family farm in Mississippi that was sold to my great great grandfather in 1830, soon after the government stole it from the Choctaws and set them on the trail of tears. It has been in my family ever since. It was occupied by my ancestors, possibly by some slaves, then by various farm workers and sharecroppers and foremen who had their own homes and croplands on the acreage. Since I got the land myself a few years ago, I've been trying to reconstruct what was here before my time. The cropland is reforested now (much was always forested), so it's rough going in the hills, but fascinating. Around Christmas I stumbled into an area I'm sure was inhabited, and I'm trying to understand it. I'll share my journey. Go along if you'd like, offer any insights you discover; don't feel you have to comment on particular pictures but moreso on the overall effort to uncover the stories of the forgotten people who lived here.

I started into the woods at this point, late one afternoon and you can see my house in the background. The enameled pot pointed me south so I picked up there.

The next clue was this barrel. There's actually two, one more dessicated, and 3 clear gallon jugs that I took to the house. (Moonshine?)

Next came a clorox bottle. This one was easy to date since Clorox has a website for that. 1930s.

Then I came upon an area that gave me a start. On the tallest ridge, a flat area with what looked like an old roadbed laid in a circle. There were various artifacts there, an old stovepipe, old bricks, a pipe sticking up from the ground (similar to what is used for artesian spring wells in this area), the back of an old metal chair of some kind, various worked stones (foundations? doorsteps?), rusted tin roofing material.

Behind the brick piles were rows of blooming daffodils, a surefire way to identify an old house site.

The piles of bricks are covered in many decades of botanical debris. Very hard to see unless you dig around.

The rusted metal seat of something? A farm implement? Plow?
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The last item I found Sunday evening was inside a tree. What looks like a bedspring and rail were embedded in the roots of this oak tree that looks to be 70 years old. So now I have to peep into the roots of the trees to find more clues.

The last image is the lidar for this section. I don't know much about lidar (except that it's very subtle) but I do know it shows an old roadbed, and an oddly regular shape like an inverted "9", which doesn't look like a natural feature.