* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #794 / Revived #014 on 2023 07 05 *

This image is interesting because of the story and the name of the town and everything that starts bubbling to the surface by association.
Concentrating on the image itself (and just that), I see an image of youthful eagerness here.
The pool is there, and it is filled, but most people would still consider this unfinished (the little excavator is a bit of a hint.)
But no, that boy is gonna swim!
I like how the orange accents create a visual link between labour and leisure.

But let me tell you that all those considerations only came on second viewing.
On first viewing, this image reminded me mostly of a really close call my son experienced on the edge of a private swimming pool in Boston.
We were visiting the N-E of the USA and had arranged to meet up with a dear friend who lives in the Virgin Islands but who was staying with another friend somewhere around Boston. So we drove and used maps and directions sent by telephone and we arrived at the place on a hot summer day.
This was the summer of 2008.
Our son Simon (13 years old at the time) saw the swimming pool and could not wait to get in there and cool off from our long drive.
I got ready to shoot his jump into the pool. But those people owned a dog and that dog was not yet really used to Simon. No proper introductions had been made.
When it happened, we did not really realize what we had just seen happening.
Only later, going through images, we saw how Simon had just escaped from something that could have ended up really bad.

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Reflections

Very impressive - well spotted and captured. It looks like a modern version of the river "Styx" with the lights and tunnel, leading into the afterlife.... It also reminds me of an interesting movie called 'Anderland' (www.imdb.com/title/tt0808185/) dealing with a similar subject.

Naples (from the Greek New City) was a Greek city prior to the Romans. It is built on tuff which is wonderful rock to carve into. The Greeks began tunneling into the stuff for a variety of purpose. Later inhabitants continued the underground carving out. Water storage, defence, sewerage, catacombs. WW2 birthing centre, school. The city sits on a honeycomb of caverns and tunnels. It makes getting the foundations right for modern structures a bit tricky. Some sections are now open for tours. You need to get the right tour.
Most tourists only see the catacomb section which is accessed from a well publicized site in the centre of town. Catacombs are catacombs. These tunnels offer much more. They are enormous and include Greek, Roman, medieval and WW2 uses. I saw only a small section on a lengthy underground tour. More extensive tours can be booked. New sections are being opened up.
This tour is found a km ot two away from the city centre, not far from the docks and the San Carlo Opera House. We had heard rumours about them and eventually found them by chasing up The Bourbon Tunnels.
61 Via Domenico Morelli.
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-secret-tunnels-underneath-naples

Macro photography is a world that intrigues me and this shot shows why. I get to examine something that otherwise I'd have looked at but never seen.
Am I missing something here? The caps on FACE suggest there is a hidden face hidden?
The multiple blue lines are eyecatching. They frame the filament so we look study and appreciate it.

I can't think of anything to add to Roel's comments on minniev's photo.
But his aside re his son's close escape also reminds me of a similar situation. We had a pool and a large dog that could be frightening. We couldn't let him in the pool area. He's bark and snarl and rush at people in ways that look very much like Roel's photo. He wasn't attacking though, he was in "save" mode and was very distressed when someone went into water. He would try to grab you to stop you going in or leap into the water to try to grab us and get us out.

If it wasn't for version two, I would have assumed that the cupboards have a lean. That would be OK and entirely acceptable and unquestioned, given the subject matter. It isn't that I prefer one to two or two to one. Either works. I simply feel that on this occasion it would be better not to have the two versions together.
Old timers and old time workshops. Made to be photographed. Do you have any close ups of the contents of some of the boxes? Like night follows day. When I see something like this I next want to see the tools in detail.
The pose of your old tradesman is special. A relaxed man absolutely at home in a workroom that fits him like a glove. He isn't the sole subject. Placing him mtionless to the side gives prominence to the workshop wall as well. They belong together.

Stunning, "stop you in your tracks" visual. Shame about the blur.

There are a whole lot of arcs repeated in this shot, in the curve of the road, the puddle and the building.. The road and puddle take us to the building and there we find the arcs again. The front arc where the road changes colour while directing us down the road is especially effective as is the brighter, smaller arc on the end of the building..
As you like playing with images in PP Open Cube, a thought for an experiment. Maybe play around with a composie of this shot with some mirror imaged versions?

It's a great image with lots of interesting aspects. I prefer the angled version, because it almost feels like the man portrayed here is keeping everything stable with his calm demeaner and everything would come crashing down, once he stopped being there. I also like the light, which I assume, is coming in from outside and provides a tranquil atmosphere, full of lived life and memories.

I love the look and colors. Even though the bike is there, I'm mainly drawn to the tree... It looks gorgous.

The repeated and dimininishing sized orange objects (I think they are reflections of lights?) move down and disappear into a dark doorway. What more evocative spot for them to recede to? Or are they coming from the doorway towards us? It doesn't matter, it's the feeling of movement that counts.
The combination of doorway arch and rectangular frames is beautifully balanced as a background for the orange reflections.
The brilliant orange against the B&W background gives these relatively small objects impact plus. The hints of medieval decoration in the background are starkly contrasted to modern shapes/colours of the lights. This adds another element to the image.A hint of time travel.
That's great Lou. Quite perfect.

That is a nice scene well caught, with the offset Quonset style barns. I don't mind them being centered but the photo would also work with some space removed on the left, since the winding road and its puddle are big enough to still accommodate such a change. The colors, while exaggerated, are within the realm of believable so the result is both convincing and artistic. This is a nice one.

Yikes! What an experience! Quite a dramatic shot of the dog with bared teeth nipping at Simon's heels.

I really like this one. The infrared works so well on this tree with the puffy clouds and darkened sky in the background. The bike and power lines remind us it's the real world and not a fairy tale setting. I really like the simple dark blue toning for this. One of your best!

I don't know what I'm seeing but it seems like a parade of ghosts carrying fancy torches as they proceed from a fancy tunnel. However you got this (some kind of reflection I suppose), it's brilliantly spotted and conceived. Well done.