* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #813 / Revived #033 on 2023 11 15 *

I remember making a shot similar to this a few years back down by a little local stream.
Just as in this shot I like the way you can see the details of the splashes in the water all frozen in time. The colours are nice too
I'm wondering how the flow of water is here: is it coming down from above and then going both left and right?
or is it all left to right, but then how does it jump over the middle bit ?
A puzzle :-)

Looks like that reflective surface is being put to good use again!
A dreamy abstract of the edge of a forest as the sun goes down

You've captured the (double) rainbow colours nicely in this shot

I'm assuming there must be desert all around this special place? How far away from "civilisation" is it ?

I like this version better :-)

Good title for this!
what sort of processing are you using here?

I'm on the same page with Minnie that this deserves further exploration and experimentation.
Of the three shown here, the first holds an immediate appeal for me.
Probably because of the brightness of the colours.
The second is my least liked: it feels flat (no depth) and dull in colour.
The third sits inbetween in my appreciation curve.

I like the title for this image of an object breaking out of the background.
The extreme close up gives this smooth metal a peculiar texture.
It almost feels like a high-polished dark stone carving, instead of metal.
The colour of the background supplements the cool blue excellently.

Autumn walks are always interesting because of the different colours.
I like being led by the hand on this walk of yours.
Like you, I enjoy looking up when walking under tall trees: we see the shapes and patterns evolving constantly.
I don't know when I starting with that habit.
Maybe after watching the great Coen Brothers movie "Miller's Crossing".
Watch the trailer for the movie and you will see why (at around 1:17 into the clip).

Funny how in this thread, there seem to be themes emerging all by themselves, as they sometimes do.
Looking up through the leaves of your artificial trees, we are reminded of the real trees in a submission by Fireplace33 just a few posts before yours.
And that autumnal walk, in turn, provides a clear link to Minnie's gorgeous Indian Summer valley view.
I like the way you made the structure fill the frame in this one, with just a hint of buildings on the lower edge, to remind us of the urban setting.

I normally don't associate US National Parks with sights that are also (not identical but similar) available in my low lands Europe regions.
This, however, reminds me a lot of some valleys that we can walk through and over, in the Ardennes (Belgium) or in the Eiffel and Hünsruck region (area Luxembourg and Western border of Germany).
Whatever the association : the view is gorgeous. Those dark red-leaved trees in the foreground really do you a favour.

Roel

Great shot and effective composition! I would never think of a square crop like that, but it works really well with the way you‘ve framed it. The colors are beautiful as well and add to the balance. Very enjoyable image!

The Batavia story is actually horrific. The drama takes place in Australia. It's a tale of mutiny, massacre, rape and torture. The story concludes with a boat race between the good guys and the bad guys to get to the boat of the returning skipper. The whole saga reminds me of The Lord of the Flies. Marooned people reverting to a state of savagery. If you don't know the story, chase it up. It would make a nice little costume drama horror film. On one of the Abrolhos islands off the north coast of Western Australia the good guys built a stone wall fort to fight off the bad guys. This was in 1629. Captain Cook didn't arrive until 1700.
Some years ago I went on a small plane flight over the islands. The fort still stands, the first European structure in Australia. I'll hunt up my aerial photo of it and post it here next week.

1629

There is a series of dramatization/podcasts about that story, currently available in Flanders, with renowned actor Jan Decleir as narrator (actually I believe his voice is supposed to be the ship's voice).

www.geluidshuisuitgeverij.com/batavia

The description says that it plays out like a "true crime historic reconstruction movie, but for your ears"

LOL, I hadn't noticed that the water jumped over the rock! Here is an uncropped, minimally edited version I did after MinnieV mentioned the very dark areas. I had shot and processed the first for a "High Contrast" theme. I think the water is coming from between the middle two rocks and falling to both left and right. This stream and the rocks are a man-made water feature at a nearby medical building. It's the building I photographed for the black and white geometric shapes. Many thanks!

Your exchange with MinnieV about the leash was instructional - something I totally overlooked. I started to comment on the photo when you first posted; however, it was a painful reminder of the final year of my last beloved dog, when she had days that were too uncomfortable to go for walks. Years previously, the reluctance would have been due to her wanting to stop and sniff the evidence of every living thing that passed by.

I'm sure dog lovers can identify in several ways with your photo.

The Norman Rockwell processing is highly engaging!

I came to this image actually by first seeing someone's comments, including a sample of shot of museum visitors, to illustrate what someone called "Norman Rockwell processing".
And I was puzzled, because this above image was NOT included in the conversation, and there was talk of a leash and a puppy...
Imagine my puzzlement while looking at an image of a museum visit with clearly no leash and no puppy...
Ah, the wonders of forum interaction...

But anyway, I got to this image and apart from (yes) the particular processing, what strikes me most is how you framed this image to have the two main characters really at the edges of the frame, and pulling in different directions, as if both of them want to escape from the photo frame. I like that idea.

"Got any bananas, mister?"