* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #962 / Revived #182 on 2026 09 23 *

Check these out everyone. Lots of outstanding photos.

Thanks for adding vertical to the pano discussion. I'm running out of time to spend on the forum this week. These from Woodsider are outstanding and deserve close examination.

Actually taken in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park (south Wales) years ago... about 2014 I think! I liked the contrasting colours and textures, so went with a simple composition and square format.

Wonderful! The light is gorgeous and the undulating landscape forms are wonderful. Some of the most fascinating panoramas I've seen have come from phone cameras. I am not good at it, but should spend more time at it I know.

Even better is the great discussion about panoramas and the new folks who've joined in it.

This is intriguing. It conveys more of a 3D impression than an ordinary photo. Of course the little bokeh dots create interest in the more blurred part of the image so there's lots to enjoy and explore even there. Very nice.

Your bees are a lot of fun to look at close up and in detail. I would be hard put to choose a favorite because each of them is a different part of a story. I love the different angles and behaviors you have captured.

I am not sure if this is a factor on my end or the forum end but only 4 of them show up on the post and there are 6 lovely images in the thread. I had to click on small thumbnail images beneath the 4 to see the other two.

Well if I'm understanding the set-up, at least he knows how to flirt properly. I need to read up on this bird. It's a remarkable visual story. The bird himself is quite handsome which will of course be another arrow in his Cupid's quiver.

Quite a nice panorama with beautiful clouds, and a city laid out behind a body of water. This type of scene seems to work well in panorama format. I like how the line of the boat's wake serves to lead the eye through the scene from left to right.

Another really lovely sweeping panorama in the subject matter than seems to work so well for that format: a city situated behind a body of water. I think I might crop out the people on the left unless they were "my" people and the photo was "of" them. Their larger size in the frame seems to pull my eye that direction and out of the frame.

What wonderful doors! The could easily have come from the worlds created by Tolkien. It is pleasing to know that such doors as this really exist. The light you chose is perfect. It is storytelling light. The image is beautiful. Well done.

Love your abstracts, Chris. You capture such unusual details in ways that make the viewer stop to study and question. In this one I had to wonder, before I read, what I was looking at: pieces of tissue paper? Ice ? Yet it is only water, just captured with a quick shutter. The green leaves add another layer to the puzzle. It was a good choice to include them.

Thank you! I like your description of the absence of stuff as an element of composition, because that is pretty much how I saw it and why I left all that blank space in there. The fog was big! There are small fogs and I usually crop the blank spaces because I don't feel I've captured anything in them. But the BIG fogs seem to demand to be included. (I love shooting in fog, but we seldom have it where I live).

Thanks Mike. I kinda felt like the negative space was an important element in this one, as Simple Joy suggested. Though the visible subject matter is in the shape of a panorama, the scene itself was a larger one and the smallness of the visible imagery within it is a key part of its story.

Thanks Kumsal. I really like your crop and agree that it would fit most photographic standards better in that way, but I'll stubbornly cling to my first inclination for better or worse, because the fog demanded that space and after a while I quit arguing with it.

Thank you, Mike. YES! It is a photograph of an impressive fog, and a few colorful details of unremarkable buildings that peeked through it. A dab of fall foliage amongst the greens of the cedars and pines. The same scene is most ordinary without the fog.

Since the only gallery it may ever see is my own, I can display it at any size or level I choose, so some of those concerns won't matter. I do agree with you that the thin line around it might help it with online presentation. And no I never considered monochrome because of the dabs of fall colors.

All these are very nice, beautifully captured and compiled. All of them are frameables. My own personal favorites are the first (landscape photography is my first love, and I had a lot of fun shooting these formations when I was there), and the last. The last has a very painterly feel because of the composition and the lighting. I feel like there's a touch of the Dutch masters in there (and they could do beautiful landscapes when they wished).

Thanks Minniev :-)
I uploaded the 6 photos that I took with my Nikon with the help of my phone while on holiday. It was all rather tricky and fiddly. Then I chose what I thought were the best 4, and displayed them in the post. Glad you found the other 2 and liked them all ;-)

Good points. And good images. I especially like the second one. These are good examples of vertical panorama constructions that worked. I have some successes and many failures with this, probably should practice more. I shot a set yesterday that I hope I can cobble together but haven't tried yet.