* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #812 / Revived #032 on 2023 11 08 *

Good! This one really tells a story "A day in the life of,..."

The technique has given a nice result for the mushroom itself, but as someone else mentioned, the banding in the bright background is a bit distrurbing, but probbaly only for us photographers. I'm guessing wouldn't even notice it ;-)

Looks like they are taking good care of this guy. Well composed shot. Perhaps it could be used for marketing purposes by the hairdresser ?

This is an excellent shot. Well done!
... the composition, the colours and processing are all very good.
And the scene with the water mill is just idyllic

B&W fits well to this scene. There's just about the right amount of fog to partially hide some of the features and make it interesting.
The layers are nice!

I like the second one best.
Not sure what I would have done differently. Without being there, it's difficult to say what other opportunities you might have had?
I'm guessing you are standing on a bridge looking down, and I suppose that ships come through, so it might have been possible and more interesting to see a ship there in the canal?
The sky looks a bit murky in the first.
One thing comes to mind for the second shot,... since you are pointing the back of the camera downwards you're getting a keystoning effect in the image that makes the telegraph poles and trees on the left (and right) hand side lean outwards and it also makes the walls of the canal look a little less steep than they were in reality.
I made a quick edit to correct the keystoning, and the shot becomes taller and thinner but also looks steeper.
Also made the interesting shadows at the bottom of the bridge you're standing on a slightly more prominent.
Not sure if it can be considered an improvement, but here is the result of the edit?

That is a nice effect and a good looking result !

...your shot reminds me that I once took a photo of my wife while she was holding an ugly plastic bag a bit like this gentleman is.
I got severly told off for my oversight, that I didn't tell her put the bag down first.
I put the offending photo in a retouching forum and asked for someone to magically change the plastic bag for a Louis Vuitton handbag.
The results were very good, and much cheaper than buying the real thing ;-)

I think I've seen this statue photographed by you before. I liked the previous one and this version too.
The strange colours seem to fit here

MInimalistic but very well composed, because the two mushrooms sit right on the edge of the place where sharp ground and hazy background meet. The bit of soil that they are standing on, devolves very smoothly into unsharpness.

This is a very successful image because the multitude of planes and layers make not immediately clear how background and foreground relate to each other.
Looking through glass with reflections and broken light, results in a nice puzzle. Just look at the missing hands of the hairdresser standing on the right. Where is he actually standing? Is he there or are we seeing a reflection.
The cherry on the cake is obviously the trompe l'oeil that takes center stage. The greyhaired man with the mullet seems to be looking in a mirror that is not a mirror but a painting. Is he looking at his abstracted self?

Still good, but not as good as some of your previous ones.
It would be strange, wouldn't it, if I gave the impression that your curve is always pointing higher and higher.
There MUST be some that appeal less than the others.

The motion blur on the animal is effective.
I don't have much else to add here.

That is a beautifully situated old watermill and the autumnal colours enhance its attraction.
What I like most here, is that you did not place the watermill and its waterfall center, but that you divide our attention between this structure and the big tree (with surrounding nature in general) on the right hand side.

I really liked this image in its small thumbnail forum-post-embedded version.
And it is worth enlarging to better enjoy its best features: the fog swirling around around the trees and the rooftops.
But enlarging also provides us with a better view of some distractions, notably the features of the building facades (doors, windows).
I would almost be tempted to selectively darken those areas of the image, to create more of a true silhouetting impression.

I think I would have preferred a shot (a bit sooner) with less overlap between the ship and the faraway pillars of the bridge.

The two views are slightly different in "view" (I think you faced one direction for the first and the opposite direction for the other maybe?
I think, indeed, that the main tonal difference that we see, is due to shooting into (against) the light and with (in the direction of) the light.
It results in what looks like two very different processing treatments, with the first enhancing the drama in the sky, water and manmade cliff faces by liberal use of microcontrast (or sharpness).
Interesting.
(Please do correct me if I have this totally wrong.)

That's a view we would all like to wake up to, don't we?
Great low clouds over the landscape.
There is a lot of frame (roof tiles, shutters) for a rather small section of landscape and sky, but I don't mind because it helps immersing us into the scene.