* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #802 / Revived #022 on 2023 08 30 *

I like the first very much; it's quite compelling for the otherworldly point of view, unexpected angles, and the way you've presented.

The complexity is powerful and fascinating. The colors and light are so pleasing.

The top half looks like a brick building under dark threatening skies. And, could that possibly be a telephone pole in the background? 😆

I thought someone posted a crop that was just the bottom half, but I can't find it in the thread at the moment.

Thank you Lou ... appreciated!!! ..... About our "affairs" .. I suspect we are both a bit ancient and have relatively fixed ideas about art and life .. I grew up in WWII Chicago and have been doing this photography off and on for 70 years and I assume you have similar history .. I do want you to know that I do enjoy your work but think its best if I continue to enjoy it in silence .... as we don't seem to communicate well!!! .... I do hope this was better said ...

WhyNot

Thank you for your kind interpretation and critique .... This didn't start out as a portrait but as a moment in life ....and then he turned .... But speaking about Warhol ...

She just didn't look up so doesn't qialify for this set .....

WhyNot

Several weeks ago Jim Kasson offered up some images that were stitched in irregular shapes, and he used the stitching as part of the composition. If you didn't see those, you might want to look for them, you'd enjoy them. These two images have a lot of reflective artifacts that inhibit their being traditional images of the New York harbor, but those same quirks actually contribute to the overall interest when it's clear that the image is more in the creative category than the traditional.

Love the oculus images, especially the monochrome, which I think would be a good choice for all 3, especially the third one.

I love Lou's response about feeling a person could walk out from the sea onto the beach. I very much like the triangle of water separating beach from sky. More impactful than horizontal lines of all, I think.

All in camera. The only post work was color shifting and contrast stuff. It's the same process as the last one with a dichroic sheet of vinyl on top. I need to try some ICM ideas with this and figure out how to get better control. I need something less fun house mirror to start with.

Thank you everybody who looked and commented on my images. There is one more image from inside that well. Took me 7 years to come back and take this one. The writings on the wall are names of the people killed during Holocaust. You can submit names and they will put them on the wall. My mother's in law parents have been killed in the ghetto in Ukraine. Now their names are on this wall.

Wow... a great capture of what I perceive as an impactful and devastating monument! Don't have much to say honestly... it's just that: devastating, with all those names in the background, each one robbed of all the potential. I'm really sorry to hear your family has been affected by it as well. Great that you got their names on.

Each of these benefits from being viewed at a larger size.
1 & 2 give scale.
3 has textures I like in the water in the pool. The water fall into the pool is like a sheet of slumped glass that becomes a bubbling froth. Maybe consider coming in to make these two things dominant in the image?
The incoming sky of 1 contrasts with the rush of water and suggests that more is on the way.

Really interesting shot, creating a lot of questions and inspiring to think about possible scenarios. To me it seems highly likely that someone took the 'brick and mortar store' descriptor too literally... 😉

I like the light and composition as well as the overall mood of the image. The shadow of the rail onto the bricks is a striking detail, surely worthy of a separate image from a different angle (which perhaps you even took...) I would try how it looks if the bricked-up doorway would be placed completely parallel to the frame... might work, might not!
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You are right. I took a second version but it is quite different. Still thinking Led Zep. The stairway not chosen.
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MY ADDITION (ROEL) :
I like the secondary images actually much more than the one originally posted.
The figure (Suzette?) in striking red, with a red umbrella, used indoors, creates a weird but wonderfully mysterious effect that adds not only scale to the environment, but also human interest and a strong focal point.

This wouldn't have worked nearly as well if the photographer had posed the subjects with vertical people and a level horizon. It would have felt static.
Here are lines coming in from the corners in both the foreground and background. The association of the photo with the subject can't be missed.
Definitely a photographic moment.

Agree.
Superb image in which the addition of what usually would be considered an unwelcome distraction (traffic indications on the ground) is a stroke of genius.

I have found that in urban environments, traffic paint on the roads can often be used as a geometrical element in the frame.
(Zebra crossings in particular can be excellent diagonal leading lines when shot with wide angle and close enough.)

This takes that idea and dances a tango with it, taking it a step further.

Minnie,

Your comment made my day (and that day wasn't half bad to begin with).

If my photography of succeeds once in a while to "embody the intriguing way we weave our human stories together across culture and geography", then I will die a happy and satisfied man.
For me, there is no greater purpose to photography than just that : to show how diverse the population of this earth is, and still how fundamentally the same everywhere.

You could not have given me a nicer compliment.

(Like I say it on my web pages :
My main passion and focus is to show authentic people in extraordinary situations.
That is what really makes my heart beat faster.)

I cheated. Trying to get an insight into what you did here, I went to the FlickR page and snooped around. Some clues, but it didn't help much. The lens choice is probably important as well?
Nothink like a story comes to mind. Just lines and colour that are pleasurable.

Perfect minniev.

Or that perhaps some paths turn out not to be the best route?

I thought the previous one was more tasteful and resembled a Karel Appel from the Dutch Cobra group and Karel Appel has also made a name for itself in America. This one strikes me more as an aquarium with small goldfishes. Anyway a good try.
Lou