* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #896 / Revived #116 on 2025 06 18*

Now, this is great effort to find and capture weatherd sun on the wall. I like the trailing rust and smiling head and all against interesting background colours. Even the house # has significance...

Good looking specimen. I would consider lopping off the snow to accentuate the bird, but this is a prerogative of the image taker, I believe.

Thanks!

What significance do you find in the house number?

Rich

Well, it's a small thing, but the blue frame around the house # almost matches the blue trim of the roof. I know it's trivia, but nevertheless they play together imho.

Now, this is great effort to find and capture weatherd sun on the wall. I like the trailing rust and smiling head and all against interesting background colours. Even the house # has significance...
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Thanks!

What significance do you find in the house number?

Rich
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Well, it's a small thing, but the blue frame around the house # almost matches the blue trim of the roof. I know it's trivia, but nevertheless they play together imho.
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Oh. OK.

Serendipity.

I thought you found significance in the number itself.

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Rich

You found the perfect peep-hole to shoot this guy through. This texture of the bull sculpture is very similar to the texture of the peep-hole construction material so they belong together. You've picked an angle that makes it look like the bull is also peeping at YOU through this diamond shaped aperture. It might be tempting to get rid of the building behind him, but it is pretty interesting in its own right so I would leave it as it is. Nice find, and well constructed image.

Rock art is amazing to me. These are fine specimens, and the colors: yellows, reds, blues - are rich and beautiful and the lines delicate and precise. You're also showing us the lavishly decorated dwelling, likely quite old, where it's located, a photograph which is well composed and lovely in its own right. Powerful stuff.

The mix of lines and shapes receding to a vanishing point on the right is very appealing, as are the greens, There's a lot of contrast. Some is needed, to justify the shadows and create the shadowed lines, but i think you could afford to raise the shadows a bit in the very dark areas to reveal more detail.

Let's assume it really is a boat coming at us through breaking waves. The large wave at the back gives impressive scale to the seas. The small wave created by the boat adds speed and there are more breaking and swirling waters in front to be survived. The tilt of the image gives instability. A moment on the edge has been captured. The colour contrast makes the subject clear and it's a warm, living subject. The selective sharp area of focus does the same. The subject is coming straight at us and it's coming fast. Action and drama the viewer is involved.
While all the above is true, we are totally aware we are looking at a clever piece of photographic legerdemain.
No idea how it was done but it's a knockout result.

Of the first set, I like the first, the pano, for its inclusion of the entire cloud opening, which to me seems the "real" subject rather than the turbines. I'm not terribly fond of turbines, but they serve a function here, in both versions, of corralling that amazing light show. But the cropped version seems to me to cut off too much of the real subject. I love this image, it's exceptional. Print it carefully, and display it.

In the second set, I like the broader view best for almost exactly the same reason. The most interesting part of the image to me is the lake, whose undulating shoreline is laid out like big rambling leading line behind the colorful flower. I think that undulating shape, especially the big curve in the left third section, plays an important role and cropping it makes it feel like something is cut off. Getting a bit lower would have perhaps got you a nice angle, or let the flower break the horizon line, but that is in the past now. I would remove those electric towers in the background along the horizon, it would be easy in Lightroom. They don't add anything and distract little.

The final one has less appeal for me than the others, but it's a decent shot, well taken, with a foreboding sky and a lot of lines and angles mixed with nature.

Overall a good outing with at least one memorable keeper, more than I usually come home with! Well done.

What you can make of something as simple as a boat model is pretty remarkable. I am so glad you have come back to share such wonders with us. Brilliant color, eye catching lines and angles with only enough detail to identify the subject represented. Then you have created turbulent water and seafoam and sky out of who-knows-what. And captured all with some exotic old lens none of us ever heard of. Wonderful, creative.

Nice image made better by nice light. The sidelit "sun" melting into rust and running down the stucco wall is interesting enough, but the mix of complementary blues and yellows makes it even better. Well spotted/taken.

That lake is familiar. Which is it? And I have met the magpies of RMNP- they are bold and personable! RM is a lovely place in winter.

I honestly don't see the stitch problem in the middle of the pano that you refer to. But I have noticed in my own panos that I often see stitching errors that observers who weren't there don't see. What is a more significant bother to me is the blown area around the run along the right edge. I don't think there's any detail there. If you don't have detail in the raw or in another image from the sequence to patch in, you might consider cropping that part out. I do love the people playing on the ice. They make me smile.

Of course the magpie is a charmer as he stares out over his kingdom. Well caught.

Three things struck me immediately. The sculpture itself, the angled shadow lines and the framing.
The chosen proportions of the image make the framing important. The top and right sides use essentially continuous lines from the building. The bottom edge doesn't feel quite right. I think the line of plants might have been cropped a bit lower down so there is more of a continuous line of them along the frame edge.
The angled shadows on the wall are appropriate for the sun sculpture. The fine bright sun line on the left gets attention and creates balance to the left of the shot.
The rust stains add more fine lines that add character as well.

If there is a panorama error here I wouldn't worry about it. The only contendors I can see are about three small vertical bright areas of reflection in the water and they may be exactly that, reflections.
It's a good subject for a panorama and your pine trees bookend the shot nicely.

The magpie. Apart from being black and white, it's nothing like an Australian magpie. Somewhere, there must be a story about the word "magpie" and how it has been used internationally for different birds. Your magpie looks like a passerine hopper while ours is a walker. I thought all covids were walkers but apparently not so I learnt something from your shot.
Raising the shadows would help the bright little eye and head details to stand out. But he's a fine looking fella.

Thanks, Minniev

Rich

Thanks, Mike

Rich