Terracotta curve

Excellent--definitely deserves POTW.

Thanks, Les! Terracotta is officially next weeks color! :)

That's one cooperative bird! Nice capture.

Beautiful minimalist construction with inclusion of frame as part of that construction. Excellent work, Vjacheslav.

Jim and Wayne, I appreciate your comments! I provide a link below to a slight deviation from the original attempt. Here I tried to add more of that 'optical illusion' material and also dynamics to the composition by playing with the frame. I wonder what you make of it?

 

https://www.photo.net/photo/18383933/Terracotta-curve-vol2

Bravo, bravo and BRAVO !!! Applauses from my seat! Simple, yet powerful and effective. Denotes great sensibility and refined creativity. Congratulations! DG

Wow! Quite a generous review from your side, Daniel. Creativity works, it seems...

Why doesn't the railing's shadow match the railing?

 

Interesting to see the frame made to be a necessary part of the composition.

Keen eye for detail you have, Julie. To be honest, I don't know for sure. The sideview of the staircase together with the railing is 2D-flat, so no deviations in terms of width can be detected. My best guess right now is that the intermediate platform is wider than the lower section of the staircase and that the railing gets wider at some point to follow platform's geometry. I will check it out later at home - I am sure I have other shots from slightly different angles.

Anyway, thanks for noticing and making my evening interesting!! :)

I join with the others who are impressed with the frame. Aside from the simplicity of the image, which also is noticed by others, I am impressed by the textural variety. Excellent work, Vjacheslav!

Very nice indeed. Love the frame too.

Great image, like the colour theme and composure.

Michael, Robin and Chris, appreciate your critique input. I am also glad something from fine art section made it to POTW.

I couldn't agree more with your observation about fine art images. Abstract images are selected less, though.

very artistic, congratulations

It is the bringing out of the full texture of the wall that does so much for this image, giving it a `lived in' quality. I have the feeling that the bird is a frequent visitor here, and feels right at home. At the same time the bird is living in the realm of humanity, yet has found a place where it can be away from actual people: it is the bird's sanctuary from the stresses of foraging in the human jungle we call a city!

Michael, actually, I cannot even recall seeing an abstract style POTW. It's either a portrait or a street-shot (or so it seems)...

Eduardo, appreciate your opinion. Thanks!

Dale! Now that was one emotional/poetic response. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Vjacheslav, have you noticed how similar your picture is to André Kertész's "Landing Pigeon, New York City", 1960 that you can see at this link: http://blog.ricecracker.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/landing_pigeon_ny.jpg ? Very much the same, though his is B&W.

Indeed, Julie! Only André has a pigeon and I got a crow :) Yet again, very sharp eye from your side. Even the mood IMHO is pretty much similar.