My Architect-Louis Kahn
by quiet_observation

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I prefer your picture to the one in the link :)

This is ahead of its time for 1964 - possibly with such extreme prescience as to anticipate inclusion in this thread.

Window
by posthumous

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Great textures - lots going on - high grade stuff.

GOOD

by boysetsfire

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We'll have to call this one in, I think - on suspicion of walking on the wild side.
Nice call :)

Sucky-Window-4.jpg
by JerseyGenie

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I might have gone for a vertical correction on the central glazing bars. Whether that would make it better or worse is another matter . . .

What post said. There's a great line/space/shape harmony going on here, with the melancholy of decay providing another layer.

Pure Rock Fury
by sickdog

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Nice bell curve. One one and one ten. Do you think we could introduce them to each other?
Good dynamics with the tilt. Maybe if the singer was somehow more distinct from his immediate background it might help.
I think the 4.7 has something to do with 'pure' being seen as synonymous with 'virtuous' - which means all bets are off for some of us anyway :)

Projecting wealth and stability
by quiet_observation

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All this and history too!

Beautiful shot, lovely colours and lots going on.

bird blind
by posthumous

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Neat use of the diagonal. This treatment enhances the richness of the green, methinks.

Alley window
by Melethia

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I've got an askew too - you did the right thing. Did anyone ever ask the line if it wants to be straight? Love the reflections.

...when you finally reappear at the place where you came from...
by raish

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Here are the beasties, in all some of their glory, snuggled up in the botanical gardens' orchid house in Oslo. According to the info there, they hail from Australia and a called (no doubt in some Aboriginal vernacular) polypodiaceae, no less. Is sherpet's 'stag horn' the common name in Oz?

The frame: It's done in its own layer, maybe. With dimensions of X by Y pixels for the whole picture, a rectangular marquee at X-20 by Y-20 is moved 10 clicks left and 10 clicks up by way of arrow keys. The stroke function gives it a line inside of it - I think I plucked the green from the middle of one of the stems. Then the selection is reversed and brown sampled from around the - ahem - vanishing point is painted on with a brush tool at about 400 pixels wide and NB! 60% oppacity. I suspect that I may have done all or some of this on a new canvas of identical dimensions to the picture. This would enable the border to be edited with brightness/contrast and/or curves, without affecting the rest. I don't remember for sure, but something along those lines, as I recall . . .

In the meanwhiletime, I'm loving the comments, many thanks.

Ethereal
by bod

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675th place is a massive achievement.
It also takes a certain something to enter a shot like this. Re: the certain something, and as you like bike racing, I can tell you that I spoke to some stranger once while watching a friend of mine try his hand at somebody-or-other's school of racing at Brands Hatch. Said stranger said he'd also tried it once and when I asked him why he hadn't kept it up he said: "I haven't got the arsehole for it." So well done. I think I'll make it a favourite just so as you have to change your profile page again.