• Members 1791 posts
    Sept. 12, 2025, 4 p.m.

    Hey! 😅

  • Members 1136 posts
    Sept. 13, 2025, 11:15 a.m.

    No insult intended. That is why I used the word "legendary" quite tongue-in-cheek.
    The one and only Austrian we know personally is a delightful gentleman.

  • Sept. 13, 2025, 11:35 a.m.

    Yes, the number of people, of all ages, who smoke here (even in the streets) is quite shocking. The worst part is that, while it is forbidden in restaurants and cafés, it is allowed if you sit at an outside table. This makes no sense to me.

    David

  • Members 2238 posts
    Sept. 13, 2025, 9:35 p.m.

    The whole post is a pleasure. The text ( including the recipe) puts everything into a context we then share.
    The rocks themselves are people like. All the photos associate people in a landscape where the people have the strength of the rocks.

  • Members 2238 posts
    Sept. 13, 2025, 10:31 p.m.

    A fitting tribute and a bold piece of art.

  • Members 2238 posts
    Sept. 13, 2025, 10:41 p.m.

    How to break the Rule of thirds tyranny....
    Repeating the pattern and colours, tablecloth, bowl and vitamin goodies adds the visual interest. Then, circular space around the bowl is repeated by the bowl. The overlap of the stalkedges from the rim of the bowl does a great job in linking to the stem shapes of the cloth and bowl.
    You'd think still life and bowls of fruit couldn't still be done....
    Delicious shot.

  • Members 2238 posts
    Sept. 14, 2025, 4:43 a.m.

    It was some tome before the penny dropped,so to speak, that those weren't leaves on the base. It's a photo that shares something that might be of interest to others and it succeeds. He's cute. Where is he and what'sthe story?

  • Members 2238 posts
    Sept. 14, 2025, 4:56 a.m.

    It was a good question and it took me a while to decide. I prefer 1.If either of the people on the left had show awareness of the other there would have been a suggestion of a story without the chap on the right. He'd have been a distraction. As it is we have a statement of disengagement. The figures have a pattern like repetition but a feeling of isolation predominates.

  • Members 857 posts
    Sept. 14, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

    This stone figurine is in the Gibbs Gardens in GA, USA. There are quite a few scattered around Gardens. Somebody put a hat on this one, making it humorous.There is a tradition to leave a coin if you want to come back to the place where you left it. Thus pennies.

  • Members 1136 posts
    Sept. 15, 2025, 7:55 p.m.

    Funny little fella.
    Great story to explain this phenomenon.
    But is it just me and my slightly kinky imagination that sees not only an owl's face carved on that stone, but also a quick sketch like some people (allegedly) draw around naughty words in a naughty friend's 50th birthday album?

  • Members 1136 posts
    Sept. 16, 2025, 11:19 a.m.

    The sheen on the metal ornament is very nice.
    The reflected colours of trees and buildings remind me of mother of pearl.

    Composition-wise I would crop a bit tighter to get rid of the Fire Department notice bottom left.

    Also, although I don't always think that perspective distortion correction is necessary, I would, in this case, correct the lean of the verticals.

    Cropping tighter and making the verticals truly vertical would, IMHO, possible result in the open doorway resembling the sleeve of an oldfashioned vinyl LP, to go with the shiny metal disc.

  • Members 1136 posts
    Sept. 16, 2025, 11:20 a.m.

    What Mike said.
    And let me add that oversaturation works here.

  • Members 1136 posts
    Sept. 16, 2025, 11:22 a.m.

    I like your pun and I do also like the oversaturation (and warm WB) of the scene.
    But the shallow DOF and the bokeh are usually your main trump cards, and they leave less of an impression in this one than in your previous offerings.