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What's the spot at the top center?

That's a bird. Looks more obvious in a larger print :)

Excellent subject material & brilliant comp, but for me the high contrast really spoils it. Just my subjective experience, & I'm really interested in what this would look like with very much lower contrast. The metal in a rural setting would be enhanced & therefore have conceptual contrast rather than extreme & restricted tonal range.

Taken along the New River, which flows into the Salton Sea, and is

said to be the most toxic river in the U.S.

In principle I agree on the contrast comment posted by Geraldine, but maybe this high contrast is trying to supply some "apocalyptic atmosphere to the shot. Yes I got carried away there, lets live it at adding some mess at the stinking river.

Love this shot! The way you've made it really high contrast really works for the subject matter. I feel like it's an old war zone-- the war on the internal combustion engine perhaps!

 

Great!

I am seeing part of your work here in photo.net and I really like it, I love very contrast pictures. I would want to know if you use only your Kodak DC280 or you touch up the phtotos in photoshop or other image software. I ask you this because some of the black and white pictures seems like infrared ones, and beacause I do not know much about Digital Cameras. great vision of the world.

Superb !!!!