* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #889 / Revived #109 on 2025 04 30*

minniev, there's so much to take in here from both the text and the photos.
Loved the mosquito line. Wept over the NPS news. Pray that no one suggests there might be oil here.
Which tree is a tupelo? Those with the trombone shape?
I've chatted regularly about the ways repeating vertical lines work on our head so I won't say it again.
The mozzies are a price worth paying for this walk.

Now, which one will fit?

Selection of wares from Aberfoyle Antique Market outside Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I am not familiar with term sidesand. First two show different interesting structures and first leads to second. And last three show statues with two kind of similar but have different meanings. I found interesting and worthy of seeing all of them.r

OK. There should have been a space betwee sides and

USA diners are about as American as it gets. As you say, classic USA cars and a classic highway breakfast.
How do you go about placing photos side by side here? When the shots are to be seen together, it can be a more visually satisfying way to display them.

What a great piece of art! The detailing on the figures is beautifully done. The concept is quite inspired - the differing angles on the bricks to show the direction of the movement- just brilliant.
Shooting from two different heights added clever variation to the images. Being lower in 1 gets the viewer under the hat to see more of the face. It gives strong lines from the pavement connecting the figures . The street sign works well too in locating where we are and underlining that we really are on a street, not a museum. The yellow on the passing bus could hardly have been better to outline the brollyand make a point about statues on a street.

Mike,

It's all one continuous image, assembled in Photoshop, then uploaded.

Responses so far indicate I was not as clear about the theme of this one I as I thought.

Rich

It is indeed a three-cable bridge for the (secured) Klettersteig.
And that is why I kept that lower part also in the shot. It may seem a bit empty but it isn't.

I feel like you controlled the exposure really well here: in such a scene it would be easy to blow out the moon entirely, but you have a nice glow on that moon, while also keeping nice colour in the post-sunset sky, and an appealing silhouette of trees through which we also see the sky.

Agree with all Mike said.
Poland has some very good and historically meaningful art in public spaces.
Like also the empty bronze chairs on a square near Schindler's factory in Krakow.

It's amazing that the antique shop owner could find so many matching copies of the various items.
Arranged and displayed with loving care.
The extreme dynamic range begs a question- why all the light on the right? . The photo itself doesn't need this range so we guess that there's a window of other source to the right.
I feel that either the dynamic range should be evened out somwhet or more clue might be given to the light source. But it isn't something I feel strongly about.

I am envious of any exploration of old castles that are uncrowded and not part of on organized historical site. I like the way you've used that limb to bisect the image into two separate attractions. The castle above and the scary looking cable crossing below. I confess I am not at all envious of those crossing on those cables but it makes a nice picture of two very different kinds of adventures.

This is wonderful. An Eggleston-esque image. Vivid rich colors, leading lines, faced-off L shapes as bookends for the two characters in deep conversation. (Well, there is a third but not enough of her is showing to make her a high value component). I glanced some later discussion about the need for all the real estate on the right side but I like it just as it is, with all that stuff. Every bit of it adds to the composition, and removing it does not improve it.

I have a question. I like the processing/editing very much, but I am curious about the texture that seems to overlay some areas of the image, especially the fabrics and the lower areas under the seats and tables, especially with the greens. I don't know if it's an applied texture or an odd artifact that looks like an applied texture.

Nice documentary travel set of an exotic location many of us will never see. Oh my goodness, but lots of people are seeing it! Small suggestions: the second one is just a tad off kilter slipping down to the right. The last one suffers a bit from the overexposure in that window. It might can be retrieved if you have the raw file, but if not, you might want to consider cropping it. The top half by itself is a pretty darned good photo on its own.

We don't have to ask where these were taken. I like the triptych arrangement of three only loosely connected, well taken photos that share a common underlying theme. This is the sort of subtle artistic thinking that I don't think AI will do well with.

Nice artwork with an interesting story. I like the way you've caught that second one in front of the blur of the moving bus, calling attention to the passage of time between now and the events that inspired the art installation.