* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #929 / Revived #149 on 2026 02 04 *

I see it as a docu image and b&w pp certainly accentuates the daily life of local residents. Reflections and rainy atmosphere really adds to the interest.

General reply to y'all re the rooster on the tracks.
Oh dear, the opinions are universal and I bow to the collective wisdom.
It's one of a series I did on Train Street in Hanoi. Others will appear here eventually.
What I was seeing were the two pairs of legs. I cropped where I did thinking I was making that point. It would have been better if the human was more to the side so the rooster head stood out. I had done some playing with the top crop (pun alert) but taking it higher included lots of extraneous stuff and colour on each side of the human and it also made the rooster smaller and the contrasting feather details were lost.

Loved the whole post. The photos convey the scale, the detail and a glimpse into the magic of movie making. The text is essential so we understand what we are seeing. A film that deserved better reception.
The connections to the film trailers ice the cake. We jump from the sets to what Scott created from them.
Lots and lots to enjoy.

I didn't find these gloomy. Here, the much loved dam in a completely different light. 2 and 4 stood out for me because the ice is most apparent in these.
The shots are probably best appreciated by those of us who have become aficionadoes of the dam over many years. Here we see it in a totally different light. But it gives me a small problem. I can't look at these in innocence. I have many, many memories of previous dam scenes and they are all in colour. This series doesn't sit comfortably with them. Of course, the ice colours will be different to the golden/copper tones of the past shots. But seeing these as ongoing studies of "the dam" I feel the shots should also be in colour, even if as is probable, the colour hasn't the appeal of those from previous visits.
If this group is viewed in isolation from the previous images, that's a different matter.

I agree completely with Pete. Quite apart from the colour, the completely flat backgound has given in a posterized result that doesn't feel right to me with the subject. I much prefer the kind of lighting and background you use with a similar subject, Lilias in glass, a couple of weeks ago.

First, some general comments about photos from above. Much of what thrills me about photography is from having my eyes opened to perspectives I haven't seen before. Aerial photography does this and I too want a window seat for the same reason as Pete. Planes that have auto dimming windows must be banned. Rarely have I been lucky enough to see snow and ice fields. It's literally awesome and justifies this overused word.

While I enjoyed them all, the first and last of Pete's shots particularly appeal. Probably because there are stronger lines in these.

As it happens, The Guardian newspaper a couple of days ago published a series on Australia from the air. I'll include a link here for those who enjoy this kind of photography.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/feb/06/australian-landscapes-photographed-from-sky

Another excellent street shot.
Several things I like a lot. The line of people is a mix of people coming and going. I feel immersed in a real moment.
It's a good composition. While the figures form a more or less line across the top, the space at the bottom uses the reflections to repeat the shapes and we know more about the weather and why the subjects are dressed as they are. Again, as viewer I feel immersed in this photo.

A nice selection of images showing different aspects of your cold snap.
I very much like the first. It uses vertical lines to link three visual planes, each of which gives a different take on the conditions. The reflected street with the suspended icicles is beautifully caught with moody blue/greys.

I have to add, Extreme cold snaps like this are exactly what is predicted as global warming creates periods in which polar caps, north and south, are moved around.

I like the geometry and contrast in the second, third and fourth of these. The first might benefit from being a bit more level.

Nice character and detail in the bird here. And again, the use of geometry adds interest. I'm not sure if the photo would be better or worse without the human partly in the frame.

What nice examples of how to do photography on the kind of day where I can't motivate myself to bring a camera along. The dam photos are the strongest for me.

Grape Lane, York. A scene of sharp highlights and very deep shadows - something I would normally try to avoid. The final image involved heavy push/pull processing of the raw file in Lightroom.

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This photo is my favorite.
I find the detailed information and the photos very entertaining.
Thank you for that.

This rooster is truly a special specimen.
I've never seen colors like these.

Another interesting series of photos.
I chose this one because the birds bring the photo to life.

This is my favorite photo.
It has a gentle atmosphere.

This photo is by far the best one for me.
These colors reflected by the icicles are superb.

I'm not sure what is happening here. Are you saying that this image is the final image you wanted after heavy push/pull processing or is this the image you worked on?
As it is, I don't think the image works and it looks as if it needs lots of processing.

The bright area of brick buildings makes them the subject of this image but they don't seem either interesting enough or prominent enough from the sightlines to warrant being the subject. The central figure and "Sale" shopfront look more likely subjects but the darkness of these areas plus the competition for attention from the brighter brick areas negates them.
Unless you were trying for something I haven't understood, I think the current highlights need lots of reducyion and the shadow areas need to be considerably raised. If the dynamic range of the original RAW file doesn't allow this, it's an image I'd discard.