* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #894 / Revived #114 on 2025 06 04*

Marleen,

Thank you for looking and commenting.

I rather like the (tiny, but bright) splash of intense color in the otherwise very muted color scheme. I think their mass on the lower right balances the mass of the tree on the upper left.

I had very little "wiggle room" in this composition. What can't be seen in the image is the wall of my house just inches out of frame to the right and a support column out of frame to the left. I essentially was looking "down a tunnel" toward the fence and had to accept that narrow perspective with the (then) flowers in their position.

But as I said, I like them there. I didn't like any of the (very) slightly different angles that I was able to shoot.

Rich

I think the third image is the strongest composition. It's the best image of the foreground figure, showing his face and eyes and concentration of body posture regarding his interest in his phone, shows wonderful perspective lines all over the place and adds the interesting, but not distracting background figure to give indication of peripheral human activity.

Rich

Beautiful image, Roel. All the necessary elements, color geometry of the tower and foliage, its reflection in the lake and the framing of the foreground trees.

Rich

This is a great sequence of shots. Each one captures the energy and activity of the event, the exposure, colors and details are excellent. The drama and power of the performance comes through beautifully.

Rich

Psychedelic!

Great capture of an assault on the senses. Can't know what it was actually like, but you have certainly conveyed an exciting and overpowering experience!

Rich

Please tell my wife....
that I'm supposed to be the family photographer.
We are settled into Yulara for our annual working residency. She took this shot of dawn breaking over the desert as we drove up here.

* Ride

Quick grab shots from last week's Bike for Brain Health - 2 major arteries leading from downtown Toronto were closed last Sunday for autos for 12 hrs to facilitate the ride.
!0K participants and $6M was raised.

Hi Rich
I went back and forth a couple of times looking at the images this week. Each time visiting I stopped for a while looking at your Fence and Fog-image.
Sometimes we find the good stuff right at home. Then we have to take notice and care about it.
In my opinion this happened, and with a good outcome here.

I like the image (in a total, the first impression). I figure things have been cropped away and that is probably good as it now is a well balanced composition. It's also interesting, hiding more than it shows letting the beholder go back to the gravity center which, for me, is the fence. A little odd and great.
Technically splendid (our different opinions on color space has been discussed earlier) of course.
When letting my thoughts wander away the image turns into one single piece of a jig-saw puzzle and then it turned kind of more pale.

I'm not that fund of the strong red and yellow colors. They may work together, balance perhaps, for some. For me they are an distracting extra pair of details not at all necessary. As I like the silence you gave me mentioning snow the red and yellow may very well be more muted:

(I hope you don't mind!)

Thank you for a good image turning into an interesting exercise!
/Jonas

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* Ride

Hi Chris,
I like this one, the first image.
The three bikers make everything right. One is going to the left holding the upper part of his body in a high speed position, clearly on his way somewhere.The other two are more relaxed. They are going somewhere as well but confident they are traveling in the right direction. The highway barrier is in the way but at the left most biker has his head above the barrier he helps me understand the image.
Or maybe he isn't as in my mind it's an image from the future right here on the screen. The cars are gone having left their hard and gigantic infrastructure behind free for us to use for biking and traffic with vehicles we yet have to see.

Technically the high contrasts work well. If printing big I would desaturate the blue tones in the foreground shadow details (such is life when getting hooked on details). Shutter speed is fast and the wheels are shown nicely. The biker going to the left is a little blurred but getting everything perfect in a grab shot is not expected. Shot against the sun which works wonderfully.
The foreground fence kind of ruins the whole thing. Maybe it was impossible to get higher or closer? It would have been a better image with less of that fence. * Is it cropped to the right? A little, just a little, more of the highway at the right would have been right for me. Now the road ends and somehow slows the right-most biker down.

The image can be used as promoting material for the next run and probably also by environmental activists in some way or another.

I love a good snapshot so thank you!
/Jonas

Perfect dream shot.

Others are great, but this one takes the prize.

Minimalism at it's best. Easily pic of the week.

Glitz and glitter wins. Excellent.

Welcome to the group. My fave.

Great architectural study.

This is absolutely brilliant. The colours, clouds, everything totally aligned. Job we'll done!!!

Chris, thank you very much. But, to be honest I’m uncomfortable with any notion of calling any weekly image the “best” of the week. What I really like about this thread is people feeling free to just comment about postings. No competition.

😉

Rich

Thanks, Jonas. I appreciate the creative thoughts.

I think the overall muted image is helped by the spot of brighter color.

Rich