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Excellent light and detail.Beautiful brom tone.Regards.

Very good composition with perfect light! Warm regards.

For me at least!

 

PDE

Nicely seen, at first I thought it was Iraq.Excellent shot.

Exquisite decay. Prescient reminder of all life. Nicely done.

Very fine photo.

with regards

Nice elaborated, Joaquim. Compliments, El

I would have been tempted to get much closer after I took this shot, only to see what other glorious sights there are up-close and inside. However, I do hope that you are more sensible than I and that you kept your distance from the dangers that appear to be lurking here.

 

This is a lovely shot! Is it another view of the old rusted ship that you have photographed for us in the past?

What a memory my friend! Yes, it is. And I wouldn't dare to go inside. Regards.

Good composition . Nice toning and contrasts.Cumprimentos

Great ruines, amazing image, I like this color tones.

Joaquim, the light and shadow are having a great effect in this one, and creating in this old ruined construction an interesting form. the light of the BG ( entering from kind of windows) and the FG light are very well exposed.The shadow are not too dense, and showing details in them. The tone is compatible, looks a place that has a story to tell. Very nice.

to be brutally honest I think you took this at the wrong time of the day. The light is way too hard to get the most out of this one. I also have a slight suspicion you compromised a bit to lighten those shadowed areas? With a bit more softer light you'd get a world of textural richness that I now mostly suspect is there. Also the background looks overexposed. In other lighting conditions this would look a whole lot better and even help with the context of this wreck. Like your composition though.

You are right. The light was too hard, I had to lighten the shadows and tried to recover the highlights behind the boat. This is from the same series that is in my folder "Rust never sleeps" and this boat is on a beach only accessible after a 1 hour walk on the sand and only when the tide allows it. It was during last year's summer and I was on vacations nearby. Never returned but the legend says the boat his still their and that at night you can ear the sailors dancing by the fireplace and drinking rum (just kidding in this last part, of course). Regards.

great story. In fact maybe we should have a rum there someday at night if only to give some credence to the story { always wanted to be part of a legend;-) }

I could imagine looking this better in colour so you might have a go

Be my guest, if you ever come to Portugal. We have a good rum here made with grapes that we use to call wine. The finest red wine can have a wonderful bokeh, almost as smooth as the finest Zeiss lens, I don't know why, but here we call it "bouquet". Regards.

Joaquim, even though technicaly Ton is right. I still like it this way as it gives a softness of past memory to the whole, not always technic is every thing, even it is important....;-))

the story has a lot of merit imo.

I know (and I know Ton also knows it), technics are not everything, and in this case I was fascinated by this rusty boat and made some 20 photos. The hour was not perfect and the light was in fact very harsh but sometimens its not possible to come back latter (or to have a flash at hand to fill-in the shadows).Thank you for your comments and regards.

I've read about your bokeh. Time to get afraid I should think ;-) It goes without saying that whenever you decide to travel up north.... and so on. Just know you would be more than welcome.

Are you preparing a blonde to Joaquim as well? ...;-))

 

Joaquim, when and if you will meet Ton, he will probabaly invite you to a nice blonde.... ( Mystery ha? )

no blonde, I've got some nice Dutch bokeh in stock for the real connaisseur that Joaquim is

Great, so I will have all the blondes... I 'm really waiting for next year, even though I will be a year older...LOL

 

( and I will bring you a nice Israeli bokeh...)

If we met, I propose each one brings its own, and then we share. Oh I was talking about "Bouquets" not blondes, of course. Cheers.

PS: I know all that story about blonds. Pfff its only beers...

I was thinking just what Ton has said as I looked at this. To me, this is a case where I can't separate technique from emotion. I, too, respond really well to the composition and the idea, but because of such brightness, I find not enough depth to really draw me in. The bright outside background feels so flattened against those windows, like there's no space out there. The foreground doesn't lead me in, it just kind of hits me. Nevertheless, it's a great scene that you've appreciated for its interesting decaying appeal and the very many textural elements it has to offer. I think it's a good photograph, for sure. I just think there might be more potential.