* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #925 / Revived #145 on 2026 01 07*

You can make interesting projects out of the unlikeliest subject matter! Pill packs? I'd never have thought of it. The blue bokeh ball in the first one emphasizes the round shapes. Clever image set!

The perfect travel shot? As the Cheshire Cat said, "If you don't know where you are going, it doesn't matter which path you take."
Lots of smal detail here to bewilder the eye. Lots of tiles and similar shapes on the building. Lots of objects on the table tops. The foreground ironwork contrubutes plenty of similar shapes. Then there is the cat. Calm and knowing. It holds everything together.

I've looked and relooked at this shot. Eventually, I think I'd prefer it cropped at the bottom and a little off the top and left. The bird needs to be recognized as a bird but when I zero in to do this I find I'm discarding much of the darker surrounds. These give something of a peep through a letter box that ultimately I don't feel help the image..
But I could make a case for leaving it just as it is.
There's a mystic quality here. Flotsam items of reality adrift.

I'm glad that you named the city. Two nights ago I watched the film. Nuremberg. Your photo brings a total counterpoint. Your title "Reflections-Nuremberg" couldn't be more appropriate.
Beautifully balanced shapes and tones. The brigter bridge and the buildings beyond add to the depth and movement from foreground to background. The small clouds pick up patterns from the paving stones and reflections to further link foreground and background. Ditto for the white buildings on the right. Your cpm[position brings all the elements together.
I'd have preferred it without the people in the shot but w can't control such things and we can't blame other photographers for wanting to record places like this.

Love it. There's nothing like repeated horizontal lines to suggest tranquility and here we have them and then some. It is done with more than actual lines. They are implicit in the arrangement of shapes as well. The umbrellas, the deckchairs, the reflections of the umbrellas, the water jets and the horizon clouds are all cooperating together . The closest water jet and the foreground paving lines change the eye movement somewhat. I'd consider a crop just above the closest water jet. Thi would also give a dark band acoss the bottom that closer matched the widths of the other left-right bands of the image. But maybe this would make the overall composition too crudely horizontal based? I'd be interested in other opinions on this.

As minniev says.
Shot one adds another layer of potential interpretation. The pill packaging is empty. The blue circle suggests the potential of an unopened pill package. How significant this might be will depend on the problems created by the empty packaging.
Shot two doesn't create the same awareness of empty bubbles. The focused disk suggests promise but lacks the possible anxiety created by the used bubbles.

Since we've had one fine photo of Nuremberg this week, I will respond with another. I was a frequent traveller to Nuremberg on business back in the 2000s, with my final visit being around 2010. We do business in some rough places, so a trip to Nuremberg was always considered a treat (and absolutely never turned down). It's a place where you can feel safe and never have to hunt for a place to eat or drink (or both). So, in August 2024, I travelled there as a tourist. A couple of tourist photos.

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Thanks Tinternaut. Your shots have added to the my impressions of Nuremberg. A beautiful town indeed.
Your first shot and Kumsal's are very similar. I hope you don't mind but I'd like to comment on your shot 1 alongside that from Kumsal as it illustrates a point I made when discussing his shot.
I noted on his shot the importance of the alternating light and dark houses in giving movement from front to rear. In a similar photo, the left hand buildings at your location are uniformly coloured. Consequently, the image feels a lot more static. That's the way it goes with cityscapes.

Good eye, the cat's colors fit perfectly into this picture.
It's a shame that part of this beautiful building is covered.

A good photo.
But a little less sky would have been better, while still including the people in the frame.

As if one had dreamed of such a landscape: very good photo.

I like the second photo; the perspective is very good.

Blue is the dominant color in this photo.
The color of the parasols and their reflections fit perfectly into this image.
And the white clouds on the horizon: as if they were ordered!
Excellent photo!

Looking at it again, you are right. About half the sky would be better.

Half the sky, certainly, and especially if that could result in a bit more of the giant statues;

Agreed. Unfortunately I didn't frame the original to get more of the statues.
There are more coming from Abu Simbel