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You seem to have an affinity for the nautical side of things - the ocean, ships, boats often show up on your page. But that wouldn't even be noteworthy if you didn't have the superb eye for composition to turn the ordinary into art.

very interesting ship shots- the bw treatment is top notch!

I like the sepia layering on this project, also the abrupt cropping of thee two vessels, a nice artistic feel to this 

'Very handsome, Michail.

Another magnificent shadow--I love how that glowing hull turns it into an inexplicable abstract form, and I love the way you've made the hull glow. I like the crop a lot, and I'm realizing that it wouldn't have occurred to me to try it--I think I would have automatically left out the second ship and been the poorer for it. I'd like very much to hear what your thought process was in deciding on the format. 

Thank you all so much for your comments.

Jack, i am more into airplanes rather than ships but i keep bumping into ships. Truth is i live next to the sea so it's inevitable to do so, but on the other hand this can become a creative process, provided that some one is always looking for a fresh look of the same subject.
Hopefully, i will completely manage to do so some day, but until then we all have to put up with the kind of boring repetition of my themes. Sorry for that guys.

Leslie it came to me that this kind of cropping creates a "virtuous cycle" effect. You see the background ship and subconsciously you feel you want to see the rest of it, which your eye meets in front, and vice vesra. The ropes that seem to connect the two vessels enhance this illusion too.

Thank you all very much again.

The nautical atmosphere is almost tangible and the light and shadow (particularly from the steps) are a delight to view.  It really does have a vintage kind of feel, courtesy of the sepia tint, which I also find very appealing.

Very well done Michail!

 

Best Regards

 

Alf

 

That makes total sense, Michail, and explains why the image felt so satisfyingly complete—each ship is explaining and completing the other. In retrospect, I realize that I might have been able to figure that out if I’d paid more attention to what my eyes were doing—they were indeed going to the end of one truncated ship and cycling to the other to fill in the missing information. I learn a lot from you every time I study one of your images, which makes them a lot of fun to comment on—thanks!

Back in time,,,,classic classic,,,,a BW beauty,,,a time where time feels longer,,,even stops for a moment or two,,,goes to my favour,,congrts,,niels

Just a second thought, it's easier for the eye to "read" it from left to right (at least for latin origin languages). 

I'm stunned by how much of a difference flipping the image makes--now my eyes start with the far ship, then get drawn to the figure on the ladder as though it were a magnet, then climb the ladder and work their way down the shadow to the shadow figure, spend a lot of time exploring the relation between the figure and the shadow, and then finally start exploring the relation between the two boats. It's almost the reverse of what was happening as I looked at the original version. I think the biggest difference is the prominence that the flip gives the shadow--suddenly it's a co-star, whereas before it was almost overlooked--something my eyes tended to slide past rather than something they slid to. So although I liked the original a lot, I like the flip even better because it keeps me even more engaged. The only issue is going to be the distant ship's name--I think it's important that it be there because that light-toned detail does a nice job of breaking up the dark mass of the hull, but the backwards C and E draw attention. Is it possible to reflip the name and then distort its flipped perspective? Or it might be easier to do some cloning to redraw parts of those two letters and turn the name into TEMOC or TEMOO. The repeat of the name on the far side of the hull isn't nearly as important--it probably could just be removed. Overall, what an extraordinarily powerful lesson in perception!

Excellent remark Leslie. The name! You know, i think i would have never noticed that, thanks a lot. I am glad you like the new version.