*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.10.05 ***

It's like from a different era. B&w is ideal.

Totally agree.

Great experimentation.

Hi Florida, good to hear from you.
Not sure about the first. Don't like the plants appearing from nowhere and the light on fish seems out of sync with the rest. A bit like a child's drawing of a fish tank. Certainly colourful though.
The second is far more successful. Two simple colours, the richness of one complementing the other.

It really needs straightening.

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What an impressive looking hall, such a shame it's being left to rot, the same happened to all of the old art deco cinema buildings around here. Allowed to fall into disrepair to the point when they become "dangerous" and have to be pulled down so that the land can then be used for a more lucrative purpose for its current owners. The former Odeon I mentioned in my own post, which was still in pretty good shape and would have made an excellent concert and mixed media venue, was demolished by the council to make way for a planned "civic square". Unsurprisingly and, as many of us expected, once it had gone, the plans changed and it's now a pay and display car park.

It's always interesting to see the backstage areas of these places and you've made an excellent record of these hidden locations as well as those more accessible to the paying public.

This is a clear favourite for me, probably because of the hints of pink,

Really strong composition in this one. Well suited to monochrome treatment too.

Overgrown ruins are always so enticing, yet can be a complete nightmare to shoot when buried behind lots of tall, scrubby vegetation. There's always some random bit of spruce intruding in just the wrong place, often several.

This is my pick from these. There's probably too much sky in the top left for my taste, but the ruin itself looks really fascinating.

I quite like the last one too, but I think it would benefit from a slight crop on the left hand side to remove that distracting patch of light on the wall.

A good selection of interesting buildings and architectural details as always. I think this last shot is my favourite by far. That location looks very dramatic.

Looking out from our back decking nearing the end of another day during one of our Covid lockdowns.

A really interesting series this. That stage does indeed look massive. Whatever one thinks of the politics of the Soviet era, they certainly made some striking architecture.

The blue sky nicely contrasts the biege stone.

Both have a nice evening orange light to them.

Did the bottom line and the top line not align in real life or is that a distortion that was not corrected in post processing?

The frescoes are amazing, such characterful faces. Quite old too, judging from the graffiti - I spotted one date of 1563.

Restoration is a real dilemma. It certainly needs a sensitive hand. In many cases I'd rather see old places decay naturally - earth to earth and all that. I doubt anything will be done to this one - theres no access except along a very soggy path.

Good to see you back around.
I think the second shot is more successful, with its more restricted colour palette and more comfortable composition. The first is much more random - I don't know where to look first. But then that could be seen as interesting.