* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #946 / Revived #166 on 2026 06 03 *

There's nothing at all wrong with the image but I'm not seeing what sent you out into the elements.
While there's a darker area across the top that I presume is the rain, all I see is a darker area. While this is mildly interesting, I feel it needs cloud or rain detail or evidence of the storm's impact.
But the beers would have been good.

First, my usual thing about a series of shots. I like a series to have some kind of story logic to the sequence, even if it is subtle as in the post from Sagitarius this week. But that's just me.
I like 4 best. It brings out the carving detail and we see it plus enough of the building details to get a sense of the place as well. The placing of the figure gets it plenty of attention along strong lines and also we can feel it hovering in space.
Re the organ pipes. All the vertical lines, the shading on the curves and the reflective surfaces, make them irresistible for photographers. I'm a sucker for organ recitals too. The bigger and louder the better.

Thanks Mike.
I guess I should have given this photo a title something like "The calm before the storm"
I can see the photo doesn't meet the expectations in my story.
At the time when this was taken it was still a calm evening in the blue light.
Almost immediately afterwards, the winds suddenly started and the lightning flashes behind the clouds became obvious. You could hear the thunder in the distance, getting closer, but there was no rain yet. We finished the beer and went home. Just then the torrential rain started.

I looked again at the musical angel at larger size, concentrating on the head. Spotting the cobwebs, I like it even more.

Face the sun

From a trip in 2015 to Turkey. A quiet corner for contemplation inside Agia Sophia. Pause. Turn your face to the sun.

The yellow irises really bring out the touches of yellow in the heron; the beak, and those eyes!

The loss of a loved tree leaves a hole in many senses. After the immediate grief, think about what you can plant for the next generation.

Church organs offer loads of scope for interesting compositions, but maybe you could have made something more of this one. The finials receeding into the distance make a nice pattern. Could you perhaps have used a similar effect on the organ pipes or was access too restricted?

What a lovely heron! His markings are quite different from any herons we have here, but his body form is almost identical to the great blue. I love his proud pose, alongside a nice crop of pond lilies set against deep blue water. Is he drying off (looks like he has recently done a dive), or is he showing off for a peer? Beautiful capture, and the new camera is already serving you well.

It is interesting to see what the construction looked like in '74, as compared to what the construction was like 5 years ago when I was there. The black and white captures let us see more detail without the distraction of color.Much more obvious in the second one. The first emphasizes the organic nature of the design.

Wonderful images of a fascinating show. The colors are magnificent.In the first one you captured all the three things you said you wanted, and the faceless figures in silhouette are distorted versions of the same shapes in the large mask. I love the blurred one as an artistic offering, but I love the pun even more.

Intriguing performance. Was there was any interpretation for it, or if it was self explanatory? I'm curious about the queen-like figure in the second, and the men on the edge, where one seems to be beating the other with a stick. Many stories going on simultaneously here. There's wonderful detail and color throughout the frames.

That blue is as rich as velvet! You can almost feel it. The yellows of the lighting present a nice color contrast. The moving train with its light trail (which the reds call attention to) is my favorite part.

Yes, it sure was.

I will disagree on the prize winning disclaimer. I think it is one of your best photo essays. Though I might quibble a bit on the order by putting the Glory of God sign first like a header, there are many ways to arrange good photos. The triptych of Nightingales is an absolutely wonderful title but I believe for inclusion in a photo story, only one Nightingale with no text would work better in this particular arrangement. Or perhaps use the one with the text as part of a duet displayed with the coat of arms which also bears a tro of nightingales, then the text could apply to both.

But enough about order and arrangement. The photos are quite wonderful, all properly exposed with no intrusions or details lost to exposure problems, which is notoriously difficult inside a dark old cathedral.

The organ pipes and the iron fence are fine abstracts with sharp focus where it is needed and shallow focus/dropoff where it works best.

The cobwebby angel is sharply detailed and compositionally well placed with at least four different lines coming from diverse angles to meet and drive our eyes to him.

I thoroughly enjoyed this set, and commend you on capture and presentation.

Thank you Mike.

What a marvelous room! The elaborate and obviously old ceiling contrasts with the less elaborate and more sparse set of antique chairs.The light and the patterns it casts on the walls adds rather than detracts. And the wide angle lens does its job of expanding the field of view in classic distortion. Well done.

Thank you. There was not any interpretation. The performance consisted from different Thai cultural dances. The last picture depicted a fight. Men at the edge were dancing a fight..