Wednesday C&C * Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #907 / Revived #127 on 2025 09 03*

A beautiful image. It does remind me of Arches and Canyonlands NPs, that fierce orange rock formation against the blue sky. You have framed it perfectly, with that distant formation set in the same shaped opening in the foreground formation, and tiny, detailed human figures in the mid ground who give scale and add interest. About as perfect as a photograph can be.

Nice performance shot that captures the movement, vibrancy, and energy of the musicians, as well as a little of their quirkiness (the badly abused baby doll is creepy but attention-capturing). Well caught

This scene is fascinating and more than a little bit creepy. I won't speculate as to what the creators of it had in mind. The possibilities could vary wildly. I like that you made sure several of the posts extended above the lake's horizon line, and that you kept the formation on the left, allowing their shadows to extend the fulll width of the image. Interesting and vaguely disturbing.

The purple water lilies were enough to entertain the eye with the beautiful Monet-like reflections in the rippling pond. But we also get a delightful and enormous frog in elaborate detail. What good fortune, and nice capture.

Just a robin is plenty. It is notable that your robin looks very unlike the robins that live in the US. Only the coloring seems similar. But it's a pretty bird, and you've caught it in perfect profile against a lovely blurred background.

The concept and execution are visually captivating, and your use of light and sharpness vs blur nails it perfectly.

Thank you Chris.

It's a great illustration of the joy of making music together.
Nuff said.

Your title puzzles me a bit (could be due to Australian idiom).
A "mosh pit", in my understanding, is the area where the audience is most actively enjoying the show (sometimes VERY actively, with jumping and body-slamming into eachother and with waves of motion and stagediving or crowd surfing etc.)
For the musicians themselves, I would call their energetic behaviour "jamming".

Great idea to call your leukistic heron "Luke".

I like the shot: good balance between main subject and context.

At first I felt like it was a bit too centered, but actually it is not because the more busy scene above is nicely counterpointed by the clear calm water below.
And the heron is walking a plank with room for him to move further left. The mind's eye already sees him doing just that.

Feels like pan flute upside down jammed into the sand.

It could be my perception, but your horizon feels like it is leaning slightly (left lower than right). Sometimes hard to judge correctly when there is land on one side on the far horizon. Stlll, it feels to me like a slight lean, maybe triggered by the desire to have the highest pole stand vertically.

Disney could be interested in this image. It feels like classic fairytale material.
What I like most is that the flowers are subjects that command attention first.
The camouflaged frog comes as a pleasant later discovery.

The shallow DOF allows for superimposing two subjects that would not work well together if both were clear and sharp.
The twig hanging upside down is fragile but can still compete with the bulky tree trunk behind it.
I think that this is a very clever presentation, in which the fact that we have centered symmetry, works wonderfully well.

It should have been titled "From the Mosh pit."

Purple and green is a favourite combination of mine (Wimbledon?). The frog may be smallish and camouflaged but the line from the taller flower ensures it is seen. The leaf out to the left adds just the right amount of balance to the weight on the right. The variation in shape and texture of the greens breaks up all the greens into areas that repay exploring.
A lovely shot, beautifully framed for the subject.

Thanks minniev, you noticed some important points I had missed.
Add a pig's head. A set for Lord of the Flies?

Thanks. It was a dark morning (last week's lilies were this same shoot, a glum grey cloudy dawn. The thumbnail is darker than the original, as is common on DPRev.

Thanks for the comments! It is the same place I shot last week's lilies, in the same glum gray dawn. The first light of sunrise was reflecting off the bird and green sprigs and I actually lowered the highlights and saturation in those to try to keep it from looking odd. Light can play strange tricks sometimes. I've been following this bird a while (he's about 2 years old), because his coloring is so unusual, mottled white with typical blue heron coloring. I've seen the white ones and even a pink one, but he's my only freckled one!

Thank you for a crop that I agree improves things considerably! I am admittedly guilty of leaving too much in the frame.

Thanks Roel. I sometimes overdo the context and underdo the subject.

Well, certainly not in this case. I like your original way more than the tight crop.

I agree with the original crop. It's the bird within its environment. When cropped it's a study of the bird. The dark surrounds add atmosphere while feeling "real'.

Agreement with Paula. The upright profile with its balance on the slim tail and legs conveys much of the perky nature of these birds.

The subject matter could hardly be more mundane. An out of focus tree trunk and ordinary piece of vine. The audaciousness of the composition creates an attention grabber.
The fineness of the vine, the spacing of the leaves and points of the leaves, are contrasted to the solid bulk of the trunk. The first is suspended in the air, the second is anchored to the ground. Life. "Same, same but different" as the T shirts say in Asia. A special mention for the curve at the bottom of the vine picking up the curve, bottom left of the trunk.