great this tone!

HI Dave,
Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous. What on earth is the pigeon doing so close to the glass wall? Nice that it draws the attention though. Not a favourite, but clearly I'm not supposed to like your comfort zone shots, so I suppose I should be praising you for taking your photography somewhere different.
Keep up the good work.

nice processing. a vague composition though

hmmm, old school... i like it.

Certainly different, I'll give you that! I like it actually, a very good capture. I agree with Paul, what on earth is a pigeon doing there!

I really rather like this image. The grace of the pigeon and the subsequent movement. I also like the fact that the pigeon seems very much brighter than the people. Of course, once I have digested this it is then that my eye is drawn into the background. Alot of depth for just one image. B&W is a good choice too. Vivid.

This is great. How on earth did you manage to capture this image?

How much of a shot like this is down to luck? Apologies for the cheaky question, I'm honestly not trying to be rude. This is just such a ricidulously good shot.

I love it! I love the look of alternative processing. You know I have to ask how you did it. It's done a little different in a wet darkroom. ;D

I don't know if this will show up twice because I got the message that your server was knackered.

This is an amazing, fantastic shot, David. I really like this. I like the vertical line, especially, that I presume is caused by the seam in the wall or window. Along with the white spots near the front tire of that bus, it creates a nostalgic, old-film, Fellini-esqe effect. Beautiful shot.

ditto on the old film comment above, grain and all. the b&w (very subtle sepia?) also plays this up nicely.

This one is old school faded black and white. And it's different from those shots of skies and waters. Nice one.

I agree, the texture of the backdrop gives it the film grain feel. Love the reflection of the bird in flight, I think works well with the people. The crop is interesting, was there anything more worth seeing?

I too would be interested to hear about your processing for this shot.

It's definitely one of my favorite pictures you've posted. Even the people in the background seem to have a kind of old school feel. Amazing.

I absolutely love this image Dave. It's incredibly querky - and looks really retro. Certainly nothing like your usual style - but I adore it! Great work :)

It's too unclean and dusty for my taste, but I still like it.

I thought fantastic before I even really saw the image. Mindblowing!

wonderful capture.

Wonderful.

Wow, stunningly beautiful.

exquisite!

This is hands down one of the best images you have posted in a while. This photo is perfect and I would love to see it developed into a series. Congratulations!

WOOOWWW.......This is truly one of your best in recent time....A very different composition and unique....

fantastic. A bird in flight always gives a specific 'critical moment' I love to see them in an image. I always associate your photography with fantastic composition, colour and use of light and reflection (which I do really admire), but I associate you less strongly with the 'decisive moment'. But here is a shot with interesting composition shot at the critical moment. For me this is a holy grail search in my own photography: 'decisive moments' mixed with the perfect composition and light, it appears to be possible to do one without the other elements. Sometimes you can get two of those elements but all three perfectly? Hey..... thats why its like the search for the Holy Grail. This is a great image, it is very different but well deserves a place alongside your other master pieces! The bird is just fantastic the groups of two in the people and the birds as it were. Yeah its great. The mirror wall is just the icing on the cake. Congrats cheers jezblog.com

I must know how you processed this. Please tell us!

Intriguing photo. I can't work out whether the middle bit is a bit too empty and bright for my liking. In any case, it stopped me in my tracks and got me thinking.

This is one of your best shots imho. The reflections really "does it".

very nice, it looks like an old pic from a newspaper

Has to be one of my favourites from you. Love the tone, the composition, it seems so delicate. Beautifully done.

perfect one ...

Oh Great shot!! I to look at it awhile before I realized it was one bird with a reflection rather than two! This is great though! Love it!

Nice djn. I'm biased towards this type of shot anyway but I do think it is one of your best recent shots.

Wow, great shot! Great and nice, congratulations.

I was emailed a link to your site by a friend... I must say I'm blown away by your images they really are fantastic... I can only hope that some day I'll be able to take photographs this good. Keep up the good work, your site will definitely be a daily visit for me.

Excellent - I love how old this one looks due to the soft focus, grain, and b&w. The pigeon looks like a fancy door handle at first. Great capture.

Thanks everyone. As for the pigeon: it just flew up into the shot.

Enike (and everyone else who asked about the processing): this was achieved by colorizing the image with the Hue/Saturation tool (settings = 45, 12, 0) and then using the Curves tool to alter the individual colour channels. The red and green channels were both lowered for the shadow detail and boosted in the highlights (a very gentle 's' curve, and the blue channel was boosted in the mid-tones.

Ed: no, the top of the image was mostly blown out.

Ok - I guess I'll be the lone gunman on this one...It just doesn't really appeal to me. Perhaps, as mentioned earlier, it is the "unclean" and "dusty" look to the pic. Perhaps it is the relative clarity of all the possible focal points in the image (pigeon, car, background people, people on the left, etc). Perhaps its just that I'm a luddite (who knows? its possible ;) ) and I cannot see the intrinsic beauty of this shot, but this pic (to me) is one of the least interesting shots thats been posted on Chromasia in a long while.

I think the timing of the shot is great, and the idea that the bird was flying so close to the window/mirror is something that begs the question before of "why is it there?"...but the picture as a whole doesn't do anything for me. I will admit that I'm typically partial to DJN's landscape and portrait work because that's where I believe he truly sets himself apart so maybe thats part of it as well.

Keep up the good work and looking forward to the next one as always DJN!

interesting use of reflections.

Hey! Was that THE David Bryne?

Something unique that i can't explain.
Great Shot.

Fantastic - pairs pairs pairs. Tantalising possibility that the pair on the left is/isn't a reflection too. This one's got it, for me.

Brilliant. I know shot's like this are largely down to luck but still... Good work.

I think it's not a glass window, it's a metal plate, something mirroring the bird close up and passersby and traffic farther back from the bird (who probably was attracted by its own reflection, the vain one!).
If it were glass you'd have some reflection of what is behind, instead this is surface is totally opaque...
This way the bird(s) seem to dance, a sincronyzed flying routine...
nice!
Nikee

Very cool Dave, the fact that the bird is mirrored is wonderful!

Stunning pic! The reflex in the mirror is amazing with the timing you made this photo. Superb!!

damn cool! fast fingers!

That is such and AMAZING shot!

P.S. It seems that you should be in the shot somewhere. How did you take this without catching your own reflection?

Wow!!! (Not much else to say, since I'm sure it's been said before judging by the number of comments.)

looking at your images, I wonder why I even bother with my stuff. It should be inspiring to look at amazing work like yours but for some reason it demotivates me, for it makes me realize how little I know about technique. (that probably wouldn't matter that much if I weren't smack in the middle of applying for Grad. School.) sigh.
BUT ... excellent work..as always. sweet girls, too. :)
PS: and I disagree with one of the negative comments up there...that you should stick with landscape. Although, your landscapes are fantastic, you also have an excellent eye for interesting detail and I love your portraits...but you know that......however, I know how negative feedback can throw one off sometimes. There you have 50 great comments and one doesn't like it and it just bugs you (and when I say you...I guess, I mean me.;)