* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #787 / Revived #007 on 2023 05 17 *

Wow! Did you try PT-GUI? How big are the images? Maybe do it in sections and stitch the sections?

This is striking but I need to see it considerably bigger than I can get it here. I want to see the faces in more detail before I can begin to respond.

When I printed it, the print was 15 inches high (on 17-inch wide paper) and more than 6 feet long.

Another photo where the image draws responses from me based on prior knowledge. Magritte and Hitchcock. There's an incongruity of familiar shapes that challenges us to find meaning. The pipe is close enough to a ? as well. Then I'm waiting for a couple more birds to land, than a couple more......Photogaphy as whimsical brain teasers. We don't always have to have specific correct answers.

Glorious.
Warm and mellow as befitting a family home with all those years behind it. The front to back lines take us through the items and we can explore each one of the pieces and we know there will be stories with each. Your lighting is perfect. The outside beckons and is full of promise but we can still make out the inside details.
The lines leading to the door invite us into a garden that we can be confident will have the same country pleasures as the interior.
The repeating rectangular shapes are a little masterpiece of their own.

Linda, Minniev and Mike. Thanks for the comments. I liked the hard lines, the planes and the color of the building. That alone was enough and I would have been done. But the curved pipe just set all that up and looked so intriguing.

Then a seagull landed where the small birds are, looking off to the right (out to sea, actually). That was the shot. But I missed it. The two birds landed and I loved the composition. The organic forms of the birds and the pipe against the rectalinear shapes. Click.

This is a small crop of the GFX100s frame.

Rich

Thanks Lou,
I spent some time removing a heap of old Lantana branches front and back. I should have noticed what you did. Maybe it's a bit further back and blended with other in the VF.

Thanks Paula,
As I mentioned to Linda, Eucalypts can sprout new growth under their bark. There is a group we call stringy bark that has a coarse fibrous bark. After a bush fire most that survive will sprout plenty of nice new bright green shoots. When I was at that age, I remember thinking they looked like Buddha sticks - another plant but which came wrapped in foil...

I think that's the best description. I see many eyes from the knots leading to different horned animals. The slanted one on the right has a mirror on the other side - something for next week...

Which is good to hear bcoz they have been mistakenly introduced to quite a few places around the world. As is the case with so many different plants and animals.

I hear you. Years ago I saw many pine plantations further south (southern hemisphere south) and up close they were an ugly sight. The only thing that would grow underneath them were blackberries, and even they struggled. These ones here are smaller stands but yes, still introduced and very little undergrowth of other species..

Fair enough. The 'am I spamming' thought had crossed my mind...

Haha thanks. What I meant before was I had physically removed. You've done the digital job and very well.

*NSFW hadn't crossed my mind. On reflection, I am confident this image could be shown anywhere in the civilized world. That shouldn't exclude Florida but Florida seems to be excluding itself. *

That doesn't surprise me. Any way it can be downloaded here so we can click on it to see it bigger?

* Big Eucalypts like this drop off their lower branches as they grow. Note the gig one up high on the right. They also drop branches to conserve life in times of severe drought or just because the fancy takes them. I don't pitch my tent under eucalypts.
single big eucalypts like this rarely survive. Once there would have been a forest of these around it. When isolated they get hit by lightning and that takes the tops out. It looks like this has happened here. After a strike the top dies and new branches start shooting out up the trunk.*

Simply superb. The sheen on the torso and the pink nail polish are fab!

Love the pp.

Great panorama.