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Excellent in content - cultural with and without headscarf- question: is it a traditional islamic one? ... and might be a golden spiral effect? BR Joerg

Saad thanks, also to remember us concerning the golden rules not only for photographs also for paintings it makes sense to deal with it. There two well known basic ones: the Rule of Thirds and the Phi Grid divides the frame in a similar way, but makes the middle row and middle column smaller according to the golden ratio, resulting in 1:1.618:1 vertically and 1:1.618:1 horizontally … how to get? I was motivated by your comment to look again for rule models. Found this wonderful mathematical model: GODEL SPIRAL and the FIBANACCI SPIRAL. BR Joerg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral More practical http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/golden-ratio-photography/ I mean we do it by our inspiration not by caalculations ...

Arthur, thanks for your BW version. It gives an interesting melancholic scene. The IR effects works great. However, the high tension between “life” and “depth” coming from the green tree at the left side and the lit trees at the right side is not pronounced. By the way, its not a Photoshop treatment. I used the free ware: FastStone Image viewer and Perfect Effects Free 9. BR Joerg

Love the soft effect it makes it dreamy! BR JV

Thanks Arthur for the detailed analysis, as you wished enclosed the Original Shot. Happy NEW Year 2016. BR JV http://gallery.photo.net/photo/18150730-lg.jpg

Love that special scene: all in a chain but two not observing "the chain" . BR Joerg

Michael, as photographers we mostly don’t know what we will achieve as the final result. I made this shot 2013. I found it again in 2015 and I was wondering about it. I started to treat it without to change details of the original shot. You pronounced the bright structured sky and the dark tree limbs. I mean that is the point. A friend of mine, an important art collector and art expert, Georg Bruehl, said to me that each real art painting has to show up two aspects: somehow an optimistic aspect but also the end of something. It’s a luck that both aspects are in. Thanks for the comment : I wish you a Powerful 2016. BR Joerg

Tanks all for the discussions, especially David for the excellent detailed analysis. Here are the missing information’s. In general, I used a “bad lens” and simple software. - Sony SLT-A77V, ISO-200, A = 5, F =35 mm, 1/250, universal zoom for travelling: TAMRON 18-270 Di VC 3.5-6.3. - Software FastStone Image Viewer and Perfect Effects 9 free It seems to be one of my best works showing that both the equipment and the software are not the most important boundary condition to get a great result. To all of photonet friends: I wish a bright creative and powerful 2016: BR Joerg

Great details with 3 structural levels. BR Joerg

Funny: Ecodrive against ...

Great bokeh effects

Tx Tony Brandstetter your comment describes very well what I wanted to transport. 

Tx Eystein Matheussen for your comment.

Tx Mehmet Akin for your comment.

Creative reflexion shot

Outstanding structural work

Made me smiling!

Excellent view

Great reflexion shot

made me smiling!

Excellent : there is motion in

A swing which isnt a swing: the mind is , the feeling is swinging ... excellent. BR JV

Outstanding: there is motion in ... 

There is motion in!