• Members 1182 posts
    Oct. 24, 2025, 9:34 a.m.

    I wonder what the view from the other (sunlit) side might have been.
    Maybe gorgeously lit autumn colours?

    As is, the silo looks a bit like a monolith (2001 Space Odyssey, anyone), becasue it lacks some definition in the dark areas to properly appreciate that it is overgrown.

    The shadow in the frame can be considered a bonus, but there is probably not enough of it to make it a real deliberate feature.
    (You stand fairly close, IN the shadow itself: when I include shadows resulting from backlit objects of people, I usually try to get the whole shadow.)

  • Members 1182 posts
    Oct. 24, 2025, 9:35 a.m.

    What makes this image special is the double natural framing: looking through (but not above) a window in a ruined wall towards another window that we again look through (but also above).

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    Oct. 24, 2025, 9:49 a.m.

    It's a photo essay that makes me want to come over and hike in that region, especially in autumn it seems, when the multicoloured leaves bring an extra bonus to the landscape (although the mountains, boulders and that rushing stream are already enough in their own right to justify the trip and hike).

    Love them all, without very specific standouts. Each image helps to tell the whole story of this place.
    But if I was forced to pick a favourite or two, it would be numbers 2 and 3, because they are best at capturing and combining the features of the area in a pleasing single composition.

  • Members 832 posts
    Oct. 24, 2025, 10:25 a.m.

    Crazy Horse Concert

    I don’t have access to my photos at the moment, so here is one from my phone this week.

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    JPG, 1.6 MB, uploaded by PeteS on Oct. 24, 2025.

  • Members 2469 posts
    Oct. 26, 2025, 12:49 a.m.

    What an interesting way to show off a beautifully detailed moon! The complementary blue and orange color scheme always works, and here it provides an almost fabric-like backdrop for the main actor, the moon. I would not have guessed the orange was part of a piece of architecture but it doesn't matter. It' the color and the contrast or focus that does the magic.

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    Oct. 26, 2025, 12:51 a.m.

    Interesting contrasting shots of two forms of air transit. The first captures the speed and power of the jet while the second captures the hummingbird-like hovering-in-place of the helicopter. Well captured, both of them.

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    Oct. 26, 2025, 12:55 a.m.

    Quite beautiful, especially with the lovely blur right behind the Main Event. The analogous color scheme is very nice with the slightly cooler shades in front and the warmer ones in the back. A beautiful photo that should print well.

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    Oct. 26, 2025, 12:59 a.m.

    Well that's a fine one. The sky is as wonderful as the silo, if not more so. Great discovery. Interesting illusion of the silo being tethered to some kind of giant stakes as if it might try to run away!

    I believe I'd have to experiment with raising the shadows and seeing if I could get some more color into the leaves there by some kind of editing.

  • Members 2469 posts
    Oct. 26, 2025, 1:10 a.m.

    Nice photo collection of some pretty breath-taking scenery. I am always astounded with mountain scenery, living here in the flat lands of Mississippi. I like how you varied the photos with the traditional framing of mountains and the roaring waters, interspersed with closeups of the rocks that show color and detail. Well done!

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    Oct. 26, 2025, 1:19 a.m.

    Well caught moment with a most unusual street performer. (The only horse-headed street performer I've ever met was outside Edinburgh castle). The child who's about to drop a tip in the bucket is equally interesting. The shot is neatly arrayed in those geometric squares and circles with strong lines to lead us from lower left to upper right corner.

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    Oct. 26, 2025, 8 a.m.

    The boy seems fascinated by the fact that horses really can play the drums ;-)

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    Oct. 26, 2025, 8:03 a.m.

    The moon is really big and detailed here. You've framed it in an interesting an unusual way with those playful shapes and colours in the foreground.
    Well done.

  • Members 1702 posts
    Oct. 26, 2025, 8:10 a.m.

    Good framing.
    Pretty sunlit brickwork in what's left of the company's store door.
    Can't help hearing,...
    "You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
    Another day older and deeper in debt
    Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
    I owe my soul to the company store
    "
    ;-)