* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #818 / Revived #038 on 2023 12 20 *

Nice shot along with sharpish title.

Very beautiful - love the light and subtle tones! Similar scenes can be seen here in the Alps as well from time to time but they‘re never across such a large area. Really well captured!

In all its simplicity this image packs a punch.
As a viewer, you start by looking at an image that looks like a calm sea, but the realisation quickly sets in that this is not a sea but a sea of clouds, with some trees sticking out of it, lit sideways by gentle and beautifully coloured sunlight.
So then everything clicks into place in our viewer's mind.
It's sunrise!
And we are above the clouds!
Somebody hiked up a mountain to get above cloud cover and gift us with this beautiful present.
Thank you.

"Black Swan"

I do indeed love your title (I don't always like them, since sometimes they are a bit on the nose, but this one is good).

The title is good here, because of the multiple puns that combine and reinforce each other.
1) Musical notation: C = sea
2) but more importantly, the pun reflects what we are seeing and guides us towards seeing rows of waves in the knife (?) or saw (?) blade
3) ...and its serrated edge (serrate = serenade)

All of that, however, would be of no value if the image itself were not that good. But it is.

I really like this combination of images.
The wide view tells a compelling story of a beautiful place (water, vegetation boathouse, clouds in the sky, moon).
The closeup alerts us to the fact that even in the most figurative and picturesque of settings, there are strong abstracts ready and waiting to be discovered.

"Starry Starry Day"

Steps.
Tropea. Italy.

"A Girl and her Dog"

"That time Death popped in for a quick studio shoot."

Dinosaur

I would call this one "Modern Times". The old fellow, with plenty of condition, still willing to put his back into it, the young fellow, with no condition, not sure what to do next. The b&w gives a timeless quality to the view across the sea. I can imagine salt air and a beach, while other humans toil with day to day life.

I don't mind it. I can imagine an even more exaggerated scene in a Monty Python skit. None the less, an impressive castle / mansion from centuries ago.

"The view from the Future is not so clear"

I am happy with the cold gray day, it seems to fit the building itself and provides a suitable background for the various towers and ornamentation atop the structure. It looks like a somber place on a somber day and a setting for a Victorian era novel. I am a bit bothered by the distortion, as it isn't enough distortion to look like an ultra wide capture, just enough that I feel inclined to straighten it.