Terrific topic,
@_timo_redux_ , and excellent, thoughtful, and well observed, yet positive, judging.
Some wonderful entries, which I greatly enjoyed.
However, I was particularly taken by the terrific landscape shots submitted by
@arkitect and
@oblomow: I know from personal experience that landscape shots rarely come out in a photograph as the naked eye sees them, not least with the muted colour palette of our eyes and lives, as experienced in the temperate lands of north west Europe; the tropics are a lot more colourful.
Thus, - and this is especially for
@arkitect - to capture that elusive quality of light, - successfully - in an exceedingly well composed - and atmospheric - landscape shot is very impressive (and very difficult). Actually,
@arkitect's image struck me as almost being the sort of outdoor equivalent of an indoor Dutch/Flemish painting (one of my favourite styles of art, along with Impressionism, and both to do with capturing - and using - and painting with, light).
Was also partial to the extraordinary nocturnal shot submitted by
@richardallan - amazing.
Loved
@mollyc's shot - terrific lines, lighting, composition, subject matter; lovely.
Personally, I love classical music, and attending classical concerts; an opera house shot will always meet with my delighted approval, thank you,
@piatigorsky.
And, lastly, I really loved the café shot submitted by
@kendallm; wonderfully atmospheric, and the exact type of urban setting that I just love; love, too, seeing a woman photographed, and portrayed, just having a coffee, and enjoying what my late mother - who greatly enjoyed these small pleasures of life - used to describe as "watching the passing parade".
