MikeFewster

Immersed.

Re titles.It is always a dilemma and there is no always correct answer. Sometimes a title is witty and the title is enjoyed for itself.
Sometimes A title can result in tunnel vision and confine the viewer's response. Of course, what one viewer might find confining might not be seen that way by another.
Sometimes a title is needed to give a clue that assists the interpretation.
I wouldn't worry about it. Add titles as it feels appropriate to you.

I needed the title to understand what I was looking at. Then I was able to make some guesses.
It reeks of old wood and old and heavy machinery. The grinding wheel? I think that is what it is, is especially impressive.Your color range appropriately suggests age and warmth.
After that, I think there is a bit of a problem. Is it a contemprary portrait of a couple, a vistor and a tradesman, or a study of the mill? The interaction between the couple seems totally divorced from the mill setting. As it stands, they might be on a bridge, by a river- the setting feels irrelevant. At the same time, the girl, while looking happy, doesn't appear to be communication with the man - although he is looking at her.
In conclusion, There are a number of elements in the picture that offer opportunities but here I don't feel that they are "gelling" into one story for the viewer.
Of course, if the shot was taken as a record of a particular person and their visit to a particular place and the image was made to share that moment with friends, that's a completely different scenario.

So simple with so much! A good example from the school of thought that thinks visual art need not be set within standardized borders but can be framed within whatever proportions suit the image. A triumph in a taller, narrower frame.
It feels perfectly balanced while the components are offset. The wider black of the right has fewer strands than we have to the left but the black emphasizes them. The bent grass on the right is a foil to those on the left and the slope of the greenish rectangle. The 3 short right leaning grasses at the very base assist the bent grass on the right in giving balance to the tall grass and the left leaning grasses.
It glows.
It can be explored up close with interesting details along the stems.
A very special image.

Thanks Pete. From my many pictures of brickwork in Italy, these three were grouped together for exactly the reasons you saw.
Re shot 3. The Spanish fashion house Desigual plays games with their name/logo. sometimes the U is inverted to become an n. Sometimes the S is reversed. On this store, it isn't a reflection, the have reversed the whole name. I was amused by the art deco modern, the logo reversal and the reflection from a different era.

That's more guided missile than insect. Usually the transparent wings with lacy veins are a feature of dragon fly shots. You have taken them out of the reckoning. Further, you have used bokeh to remove the background and replace it with smooth screen that shows off the dragonfly and nothing but the dragonfly. The sensation of speed is emphasized by the downward trajectory.
Unusual and most effective. What were your camera settings on this shot?

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MikeFewster,
I've looked at your photo several times and honestly, I don't know how to make a photographic comment.
I'll give you this challenge: If this photo wasn't yours, howould you comment on it photographically? composition, framing, aesthetics, meaning, etc. etc. ...
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Which post of mine are you referring to? The initial post for comments is of brickwork in Bologna. The wheelbarrow photo is a continuation but needs to be read alongside the original post. The wheelbarrow image wasn't intended for C&C. This is one of the problems with a flat view thread organization. It is difficult to see the development after the original post.

An addendum to my Brickworks Bologna Post.
Awestruck by the Renaissance and Roman brickwork skills, I have taken up the trowel. Today's progress on my BBQ
In 2000 years tourists will still look at this with wonder.
The Tower of Adelaide has been postponed until next week.

As a travel tragic, I agree. What's the point of traveling to places that are interchangeable with home?
The position of the figure at the extreme corner is unusual. The red skirt helps in making her a subject. She looks, and her elbow points, to a building with a roofline that raises questions of place. The river then takes us to a bridge where once again another structure asks questions.
it succeeds, we ain't in Kansas now.

That's three images this week with fog. My envy increases.
The bend in the channel pulls us deeper into the fog. It adds to the fogginess factor as we walk along it and objects fade out. The two figures are excellent- shrouded but identifiable.

I like number 2 of the second series best of all. The vertical bird in your first post is good but the capture with the head submerged is one of those glorious moments you could spend years trying to capture. Incidentally, the colours in the original post look quite different to those in the follow up post. To me, post one looks oversaturated.

Without a doubt, your title shaped my response. The fine lines give a "scan" quality. Things are still being formed but the colours suggest promise.

An Australian artist, Geoffrey Smart, built a career with paintings based on constructions and street signs. These photos, especially 2, have the same appeal.
www.wikiart.org/en/jeffrey-smart/approach-to-a-city-iii-1969

The story and the title were worth it even without the photo.
Before I read, I looked at the image and saw James Web telescope gas clouds and some exciting straight lines that promised intelligent life somewhere out there.

Wonderful. Another tick on my fog envy list. All the delicacy of the light fog gives. Just enough detail in the background to give the merest hint of place. Lots of kudos for highlighted water that takes us into the birds. The continuation of this line into the darker shape behind is totally masterful.

The repetition of arch shapes on the building, the bridge and inverted in the reflection, makes the shot. Add the verticals of the posts and on the building facade. The foreground boat is positioned to make the most of the silhouette against the reflection. It all comes together.

A further homage to bricks and bricklayers
Some months ago I posted a series on the use of bricks in Italy.
I spent this morning on my first ever brick construction, Preparing for a very simple little BBQ. I was ruefully reminded of the brickwork I had seen in Italy.
My admiration is limitless. The following three are all from Bologna.

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