* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #812 / Revived #032 on 2023 11 08 *

Great effort and result is amazing.
Assembly of pictures on the wall certainly brings Fall into the forefront. Like those colours.

Great variety of colours certainly has impact. Excellent effort.

You are beginning to make me wonder whether I have one leg shorter than the other! But your trees are now leaning...

The water is the same light tan clay colour as the pic some weeks ago of my dog taking a swim. The reflection was only apparent when viewed with the sun from the side, the bands filtering through the trees to the right. I did add some contrast and saturation to bring up the greens and reduced highlights to reduce the milkiness in the reflection, otherwise no effect was used.

Just to show the water colour, here's a throw away I might call venetian blinds.

"Do you want me to strip for you?"

Ha, brave man. Like your colorful background and the model - I reckon marble or concrete. Superimposed?
Black framing is excellent, very impactful.
Great concept.

Stunning result and a great inspiration. Appreciate the processing information.

Trees lean, water doesn't 😁 Regarding "throwaway" I just had a bit of fun playing with your venetian blinds. It's certainly a fascinating location for studies of light, reflections and forms.

I Iike the this mage the roof and shutters really lead me into the Image and have a pleasing
pattern.

I appreciate all the feedback! I find it very helpful!

@simplejoy everytime I see sun reflect on water I hear the phrase, sparkles like diamonds. I read that in a book at some point, but I never quite capture it. I think maybe a polarizer could give me just the right amount, I'm not sure.
I like the enhanced colors of the hills, I see how this gives them more definition as @Bryan suggested as well.

These are HDR composites due to the harsh mid morning sun, so nothing would look too washed out
@LindaS I had about 10 minutes to get images. I would have preferred to look at the ship transit schedule and be there for a large ship, but I was on a bus tour. I plan to go back at some point and try and get better images. I like the shadows formed by the bridge as it gives me a sense of where I am as the viewer. I thought about having the bridge railing running left to right along the bottom but the bridge was busy and I would have lost the shadows and some of the sense of depth. I wish I could make the image feel like it is deep and narrow like some other images I've seen.
In post I pushed the colors and played with a graduated filter in the sky to bring the clouds back from being washed out. I way over did it and that's why the hill looks so odd and why it looks half vignettes. I like the way simplejoy treated the sky, but I like to desaturate the sky a little.

@Bryan The next bridge is a rail bridge with commuter service, I can't walk on it, but there are two more bridges that I could try for different vantage points. This one is the tourist spot. Next time when I'm on my own.

@ChrisOly I cropped in a bit to remove the shadows. Is this similar to what you had in mind?

Probably marble, lol. It's real. It's more of a lucky shot. If I go back, I'm reshooting this and hoping I can frame it better. There's a huge statue right outside that window and I don't think I could get the angle I really wanted from what I remember, but I need to go back and try harder.

I think that you have truncated the image on the bottom too soon. I would have done it just a fraction before the shadow of the actual bridge to maximize full impact of the water canal. If and when I have a moment I will try to show you what I mean.
Regardless, great effort and excellent result. Good work.

Also used of denoise and sharpen SW.

A really nice urban travel portrait that is taken at an excellent angle and shows both the man and his craft within his environment. We even get a second portrait tucked into the left upper corner as a woman walks among other local art offerings. Images like this bring us into other cultures to meet people we would otherwise never see. Well done.

Nicely done. The monochrome rendering allows the two mushrooms (who seem to be kissing) to stand out much more than a photo with all similar earth tones. The ghostly looking foggy blur of the background serves as a mysterious backdrop. The diagonal composition with the slightly off center subject helps keep the design simple. A nice artistically conceived image, very pleasing to look at.

Though I'd be interested to see the black and white version, I think I would prefer this one because of the importance of the colorful yellow/blue/red art work on the wall. And because color helps sort out the visual puzzles which are considerable. It is true that cropping would yield a less puzzling and simplified version of this Through-The-Looking-Glass image but it might not be as much fun if it were simpler. The reflections, which are all geometric, make it more interesting, not less.

I can't help it but that man in the chair reminds me of Donald Trump but neater.

You have again produced a visually pleasing image that relies entirely on shape and color and texture rather than subject matter. Like many of your others, this could be anything from a ball bearing to a marble to a bubble. It does not matter. The use of form and color and design make it work. Have you invented your own genre?

I'm kind of fond of wild pigs so I was drawn easily to like yours. He is probably an interloper on the bison ranch. No one seems to want the pigs, they are considered nuisances almost everywhere.

The movement of the critter has rendered parts of him/her soft, which may have been an artistic choice to emphasize how busy he/she is with all that digging. I like the flying dirt under its feet, but I wish its snout had a bit more definition, their snouts are really so ugly they are cute. Interesting and underappreciated animal.

That is one seriously beautiful and amazing sky, and well captured for color and detail. Why is it that we find the most beautiful skies when we are not in the most beautiful places? Since you didn't show anything below the treetops I'm figuring there was not much you considered photogenic there, but I am curious. Did you capture the scene with the rest of what was there? What was it?

That is one of those once-in-a-lifetime skies. I love it.