* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #793 / Revived #013 on 2023 06 28 *

Either one of these would evoke feelings of small town America a few decades ago. Even though I was never there at the time, films like the Last Picture Show, which has been mentioned quite appropriately, and photos of the time are enough for me to recognise the scene and feel a nostalgia for something I never experienced! It triggers the creativity to complete the film, of which this is a scene, or write the book to explain the characters we see. This is borne out by everybody getting involved with identifying details, coaxing new versions out of you, and even finding the original setting on Google Street View, even down to the same bent posts, a detail I enjoyed in your photos!
Seeing the two images side by side, I definitely prefer the first. The girl looking out of the frame wistfully, the man engrossed in a phone call. What is their relationship? Whey are they there? The trigger for stories is stronger than when they share a telephone booth.

Pete

There is a real forest of masts, spars and ropes all silhouetted against a fine sunset. It is very satisfying. I wonder if some of that satisfaction comes from trying to imagine the beauty of the sailing vessels to which they belong? Would some of the magic disappear if they were “only” an industrial structure?

Pete

That’s a fine butterfly photo. Nice and sharp and raised above the usual by your choice to have the needles in front of the butterfly. They do not obscure it, but gives the image a far more naturalistic feel and less like a run of the mill illustration in a butterfly spotter’s handbook.

Pete

There are good strong graphic elements here. The colours are strong and complementary. The objects are composed well in the frame. A simple image, except it is not. The real spice is the fact the shapes are superimposed on one another, shadows of a window on one window and reflections of the whole thing in the other. The geometric shapes are not flat, but at right-angles to each other, and our eyes try to see the shapes flat and fail.
What a great subject to find in your living room.

Pete
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Thank you, Pete. 😊

Rich

Thank you.

Oops... a bit late with comments this week.
Excellent as everyone mentioned.
I see 4 jets with smoke trails at an airshow, with spice on top...

Sultry, dreamy, captures a moment.

Poor little gecko. It would appear he is carrying the plague or something and they are not too impressed.

As Jim said, disorientating. And it is interesting to ask why that effect. Our sense of order is challenged because nature is disturbing the regular cues of the perpendicular boxes we build.

Thanks, Bryan.

Rich

Thanks, Chris

Rich