* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #953 / Revived #173 on 2026 07 22 *

Fireplace33, you’ve really shown yourself off beautifully.
I like it.

I hope you don't hold it against me.
That’s actually what I meant by my comment.

I am quite happy for you, or anyone else, to edit and play with my photos! In fact I find it interesting to see what others will make of them.
As for this edit, I like it. It has the advantage of making the windows more visible without having to zoom in. I was keen to keep the arch in the roof vaulting, but actually the partial arch you left in does the job of linking the two halves well enough. I like the visual balance between the windows and the organ being about equal in my original. In any case your edit is a very good alternative.
Afterthought: the more I look at your version the better I like it, in fact I think I prefer your version now.

Yes, he did.

That’s a very cool story.
Especially for a photographer-nerd like me.

In fact I had not understood the photo correctly at first. I had not seen it was a big print with twice the same guy (a decade apart).

I had thought it was a mirror and you photographed yourself (in real time) in that mirror alongside the portrait of someone else.

That would have been cool too but of course your story is even better.

Great contrast windows vs organs. Brilliant.

The setting is lovely, and well captured with that challenging lighting. In post, I might try a gradient to lower the brightness of the larger portion a bit. Might not work but might make your beautiful rainbow and tropical vegetation colors stand out more without sacrificing detail in the darks. Those shadows make it twice as engaging!

What a difference the lady in the foreground makes! Without her it would be a well captured but not so interesting image of a not so interesting building, sort of like what real estate photos are supposed to be. She brings story to the photo. Where is she headed? Is this a transit stop, or is she waiting for a ride? Is she coming from a shopping trip or are these her worldly belongings in the bags? We get to make up our own story for her, which is infinitely more interesting than the real estate version. Monochrome allows us to isolate her from the background. Well caught.

To me it looks like a partially frozen flow of water over small rocks/gravel. But if I let my imagination roam I see a giant insect like a humongous mantis shadowed in the flow. I love mystery pictures!

Nice restful scene but with vivid colors that grab our attention. Getting a measure of detail/color in the sun is a challenge and you managed it well. I do like the cropped version you added later better than the first version. I think the cyan toning in the sky is distracting, even if natural, and there's not much to see there anyway so best to draw the most attention to the part that has good details to study and enjoy!

Good local action shots. Shows something of the geography, the culture, the personalities, the social strata. I like the first one the most because of the perfect composition: everything in exactly the right place, The angle of the boat and the angle of the wood plants are perfectly juxtaposed. The 3 men (perfect number) are arranged precisely, and suggest both motion and lack thereof. There's strong leading lines. My most favorite part is the superintendent on the boat, wearing a most appropriate hat, kneeling and surveying the operation.

It is fascinating to see how far you were ahead of me in 1974. My husband was still taking all the pictures then, since he told me he had been in a camera club in high school. I knew all about developing film in a darkroom, and could even turn them into halftones for newsprint purposes, but knew nothing about capture or composition until I got my first DSLR and found this little Wednesday thread on DPR. I am still catching up...

A beautiful image, with pure colors and plenty of detail, It is well exposed and well composed. Undulating leading lines move our eyes up from the lower left corner to the midpoint on the right edge where they meet the staccato leading lines that move horizontally left to right. Above the horizon the tiny v shaped cloud formations float to balance the image. This gives a certain rhythm to the image, almost musical.

The windows are beautiful with their dominating blues and small snippets of other primary colors for contrast. The image is reduced to shapes, colors and symbols, and we draw our context from those clues so it functions as a semi-abstract in that sense. If it were mine, which it is not, I would probably straighten it a bit more. For reasons I can't explain, the organ pipes present a visual challenge for me that the windows do not, so I'd have to try to do something about them.

A picture of a picture of a picture. Now you need to have someone take of photo of you standing in front of this photo. It could go on forever!

I love the richness of the greens of the reflections in the water. Your outdoor gallery sounds wonderful, and congratulations are in order for keeping it going a full decade!

Interesting point about "who is the real photographer, the guy who set it up or the guy who pressed the shutter". I always come down on the side of the guy who set it up. If we use the self timer, do we attribute the photo to the engineers at Canon or Olympus? (No)

Well it is late into this thread but I will mention that the image appears to be slanted. Others commented on crops but no one mentioned the slant. The blue water on the right side I assume should be horizontal and it is off by quite a bit if so.
A lovely scene and it looks like a wonderful vacation to me! I would be thrilled to see that on vacation and capture the image!
Andrew

I enjoyed the photo and the story. Having a similar background in the latest image helps the continuity.

Interesting. I checked it on a grid. The water horizon is slightly high on the right. Only slightly IMNHO.
The dark shadowed horizon of the beach and buildings on the left slopes down naturally fro. right to left. I think this creates a visual compensation so we tend not to notice the quite short water horizon.

Boring nothing. A series of little observations noting stories over time.
Photo one, on the post on the right. Is that a practice golf ball? Also 1. Maybe crop a bit off the left to give more attention to the counter leaning posts?
The greens from your part of the world are always striking to me but maybe that is more of a statement about what passes for green where i live.

I bumped into this article and thought it was relevant to Kumsal's image.
www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/galleries-and-exhibitions/this-new-gothic-themed-exhibition-has-a-lot-to-teach-photographers-about-making-the-ordinary-feel-unsettling