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Keep it in my portfolio or banish it to the hard drive?

I think it depends entirely on what the image means to you. If you like it because of what it says/does/represents, then keep it. At the same time, listen to others in whom it may resonate.

Don't rely on us too much to make these calls. Some of my best work is panned by the folks that have a bit of trouble thinking outside the box. For instance, tonight I posted a tried and true rural scene with a old house falling over on the prairie. Trite as can be. Boom, twelve ratings and almost all above five. Okay, it was pretty, but certainly not very original. Then I post something that might require a bit of thought, and boom again. Only now it hardly gets any rates, and those are low. Yet, I know that if I were to take both images to the curator of the local museum, that person would show the less popular. Why? simple, it's more creative.

 

So, all this is by way of saying this is a fine abstract, and it's okay to ask, but don't let the others make up your mind.

I spent several minutes looking at it. And then looked at it again. I like it. I am trying, for example, to figure out why the part on the top right appears to be 'motion' blurred vertically against, say, the 'paintbrushed' textured softeness of the wall on the left. The two lighter areas/spots of the redbrick wall on the left look like they have been cloned - perhaps the whole bit also. If I had to make any change in what I see, I would only have removed the blackish spot on the bottom left. Definitely thought provoking (6/6)

Nassos, I really appreciate the attention you gave to this (and Red Wall). I need to confess that the effect is completely accidental: given my current image manipulation skills, I could no more create it intentionally than I could fly. I bumped up the saturation slightly but that's all.

 

One of the great joys of being a bumbling amateur is that you sometimes make a really interesting mistake. The cost, however, is the occasional bit of tobacco or dust on the lens. This one is particularly problematic, given its location in a subtle gradation of color and line. I could just crop it out but at the expense of the detail in the lower left which I really think is important.

 

Ah, well.

Dave, this shot is beautiful. I don't like to give too many technical explanations of why something is beautiful because it wouldn't make sense.

Antonio

Thanks, Antonio. I'm really pleased to know you like it.

Its a keeper!

Don't banish it to the hard drive, it's so beautiful!

Appreciated, Jesper! I've got to get around to cleaning the bits of tobacco off it one of these days but, rest assured, it's part of the permanent collection .