* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #883 / Revived #103 on 2025 03 19*

You have been turned loose with a box of neon crayons. I like the contrast of the colors and shapes. Unlike Chris's abstract, this one is full of easily identified elements. Everything is recognizable and squared away neatly. The neatness is its charm, alongside the colors.

Textural abstracts are a lot of fun and you found some nice ones. I have noticed that these kinds of photos are very popular as wall art for modernistic hotels. I can't tell see that first one in the hotel I stayed in 2 weekends ago. My own favorite is the middle one, I love the delicate little bird prints that are barely visible.

A foggy day

In early December we ventured up for a snow shoe walk in Mühlbach at a height of about 1500m above sea level, but had to turn back after walking only 50m because we just couldn't see anything at all. It was so foggy we couldn't see the path that was anyway covered in snow. A complete whiteout.
Last weekend we tried the same walk again. it was also foggy with our heads in the clouds, but this time there was a prepared ski track that we could follow
So here are few shots to show the foggy nature of that day., no need to try and remove the fog in pp here :-)

Where's Wolly ?
I did actually increase the contrast a bit here so you can just see the two people in the distance.

truely, a lonley bench candidate

It's possible, despite the fog to follow the ski track, without falling over the edge ;-)

A foggy landscape photo begins to emerge

... just after this photo the fog and cloud started to blow away and opened up a view to some beautiful scenery.
I'll show you how that looked like in The weekly Landscape Thread" on Friday :-)

Nice story, there are lots of such stories in different countries about how villagers avoided taxes. Scotland and the duty on Whisky comes to mind.
But in the mean time there is a whole industry of "tax advisers" or more appropriately "tax avoidance advisers" doing much the same ,-)
Good photo. I like the look of those orange and brown vases next to the green leaves in the foreground, and of course the great roof top view

A splodge painting. They can often look good and this young man seems to be fascinated by this one :-)

A last flurry of snow. Nicely captured by the window and then by you .
As you said it's now already Spring and the sun has been shining here all day , but it still freezes during the night.

Nice everyday city scene,... had to look hard for the cat, buit found it in the end.
I must say I miss street musicians, I should visit a big city again soon, no street musicians here out in the countryside, aklthough we do have a brass band for sepcial occasions :-(

3 lovely abstracts. They make a good collection, all with their same square format.
The first has great colours and contrast. The caustic curves on the ripples and the rocks below make for a really attractive pattern.
The white parts looks nice and bright.
The second is more subtle with those gentle curves in the sand and a single bird track.I like that.
The third fits into the series well and shows off those caustic curves again and has an overall pleasant colour palette. Letting the bright highlights saturate completely works here well

Good geometric patterns with bold colours!

Fast Food

One of the many bikes whizzing through the streets of Frankfurt, delivering food orders at lunch-time - and not just then.

I don't have time to discuss each of these in detail but I like the three of them. There is an Abstract discussion group opening here shortly and each of these shots would be worthy candidates for that group.

I've seen many photos of the trulli. They have become a travel cliche.
Pairing them with a cluster of amphora/bottles shapes is simply brilliant.

In looking at this week's images, I'm again reaching for "brilliant".
Full marks for spotting the assemblage of colours and shapes. But then, your framing of the components is admirable.
Please put it in the photo of the week challenge.

Twenty years later
I knew back then that my camera couldn't capture this dynamic range.
But now software makes it possible to recapture what was lost.
Only in RAW, of course!

This is a very good photo, without a doubt.

I climbed up to a higher viewing location (planning to do a compressed telephoto shot of only roofs in the distance to try and avoid the cliché).
And I must say that I was quite happy with that little garden with the plants and amphoras right in front and below me.

I'll bet you were.
When I wrote on this previously, I was a bit pressed for time. There is a lot more to this shot than just the happenstance of the amphora. Consider how the shot is composed with carefully positioned lines connecting the amphora not only to the close tulli but also running back to the trees at the rear.