* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #861 / Revived #081 on 2024 10 16 *

These are both beautiful !
The first has incedible depth. Those bright warm coloured leaves trace a gentle curved path inside the foreground space and they lead your eye up to explore the rest of the image where the background is darker and bluer.

The second gives you the impression of light coming from the left side and lighting up all the leaves on the left and leaving only the shade on the right hand side.
The bright green leaves in the near foreground on the right are also catching the light and stand out against that darker background, They seem to add in even more depth. Then the path leads you up and on to a bright space at the end of the tunnel.
Great stuff!

Such an interesting photo immediately catches my eye!
Very well done and I like it!

The path leads the eye through the photo.
The blue balls along the path make it even more interesting.
This is what makes the composition and the photo so good!

Nice moon images but the spider in front of the blurry moon is really a cool creative shot. A giant egg-sack for Halloween? Great details on Mrs Spider, and the sepia toning works well.

You could have some fun combining those images with blending modes...

The wattle bird looks like he's an interesting bird and was well captured, but he seems over sharpened in post, giving him a bit of taxidermied look. There's some halos on the bird and the sticks.

The fairy wren is very pretty, well captured, in a great position, and doesn't seem as harshly sharpened as the other, more natural appearing. I really like her a lot. Well done.

Thanks. The color version of the one with the flower is kinda ok, but the other two were awful in color (think of olive oil mixed with water), so I just converted them all.

An interesting and creative photo. I'm not usually a fan of perspective distortion but it works for this photo. The complementary colors of orange/blue enrich the image and cause me to examine all the details which are considerable. There is a clear compositional line from the moon through the vanishing point between the two middle structures and on to the back of the station wagon. The motel seems like a setting for a horror movie. It is a little quirky but it is an image that sticks to me. Well spotted and captured.

These are quite beautiful. The depth of the images is striking with the lights brought forward and the darks receding, the way a forest would appear to one walking into it. The fall colors are rich. In the first, the leafy branches extend toward the viewer, enhancing the depth while allowing the viewer a space on the lower right to move through. The trees and their shadows in the second one form a receding set of nested L's, a very strong compositional device. Excellent forest photos. Forests are one of the hardest natural things to photograph well, and you've done it masterfully.

It looks like a spider with eyes. I just want to stare back.

I agree.
The horizontals are just diagonal enough to suck the viewer into the image, pulsating forward on that path.
Very effective!
(And the harmonious balance of bright and dark does the rest.)

Err, before you get too carried away with my "genius" and attributing everything as an absolute property of the image and it's composition... 😜

Composition and balance certainly, but also your memories, It's also reminding you of the familiar. You may imagine walking down the path because in similar views you have. Those shaded beech avenues as the sun shines through the golden autumn leaves is an iconic view, one that sticks in the memory.

Thank you both.

What may not be apparent in the first image is that Glen Banvie is a small but quite deep ravine, so standing on the path you look through the closer ground detail and leaves straight through to the canopy behind. There is no forest floor, or sea of tree trunks, just this striking backdrop of autumn colour. I took a whole series at different spots, the one shown is by far the best.

I understand what you're describing, now that you explain where you were, because strange as it might seem for an old lady from Mississippi, I've been there, though in August rather than October. It is the perception of an autumn forest path that becomes a reality for us, created by what's there and how you've caught and presented it. We aggregate your cues and draw our conclusions. Fine work.