Perfectly processed and individually composed ... Well, I like this one, David ...The yellow and green touch of this image makes it surreal. The perspective is well chosen ...

love the composition and angle. Another great one

Just makes me wonder how there are tyre tracks in one only of the yellow 'bits" but not in any other. Strage indeed.

I've been lurking in the shadows for a while enjoying your fantastic images. Took me a second to realize what I'm looking at here. The angle and perspective is great but at first I wasn't sure about the greenish tint, but it's growing on me though. The texture of the tire "track" and the stones are very well captured. Another stunning image in true chromasia fashion! Thank you!

Now this is cool, great light providing a nice lot of contrast and a really nice yellow colour. Winner :-)

Unusual (well prob not for you!) and rather splendid.

Nice.

Though just wanted to make sure you’re intending the recent general green cast? I might have expected a rather bolder yellow... perhaps I should expect the unexpected :-)

like it - very bold and striking

You can't keep away from road markings with tyre marks in can you?
I love this, I'm always a sucker for the combination of low sunshine and cobblestones!

Excellent picture. DOF, composition, angle, toning and the contrast of old cobble stones and modern road markings. A great picture created from the everyday mundane world around us, which I think is one of the hardest things to achieve in photography.

Is that the fossilised tyre print of the now extinct 'automobilis fordis'? Nice compostion and colouring on this shot.

Just trying to work out where this was taken! Great colour and perspective.

Colors, texture, composition, all elements work together. Great shot.

very cool. i love the solitary painted brick that is impressed.

Excelent. One of the best ately. really impressive composition, Just perfect.

Other than being taken from apretty damn good angle, i love the lighting on this one.../..8.5/10
cr=8/10

Dave, something I did want to mention is that I think you should keep posting the originals as links in your post. I cannot speak for others, but it shows me how much more you can bring to an image if you give it a little boost. Not to mention, it's a motivator for me to always work a little harder in Photoshop cause I always ask myself, "how did he freaking do that?" :-) And I spend just a tad bit more experimenting with my own shots cause I know those effects are doable as you've so ingeniusly perfected. Hope you, kids, and wife are well friend. --- Ninu

Cool tones in this one... after seeing this, there's aren't enough shots out there that are primarily yellow.

Very nice dark image. I love the contrast (as usual)

i love the angle you used and the way the eye is drawn towards the top right corner =)

Not bad at all for the 10 minutes you had. I like the colour tone of this shot

I like the angle and colors. Great one (as usual grrrrrrrrrr :-) )

Great composition and terrific textures. I'm inclined to agree with the comments that suggest there's a green colour cast. Love the camera angle!

Something interesting out of something so simple. Great shot.

Text book composition and super processing. Nice.

Cool this detail and angle of road markings. Love the color.

i love it, i love the colors, can we see the orignal image before you made it?

At first I thought this might be an HDR but I guess not. Great composition and lead in and I love the way you've processed it. Any chance of you giving some pointers on what you did ?

Great photo. Composition, colour, lighting...all spot on. As ROB mentioned in the second comment though, where the hell did that tyre go after it made that mark...surely it would have made a mark on the piece of yellow stuff (whatever its made of) at the very bottom of the frame or on the next one above the marked piece. Weird.
Maybe it was a rocket car from the future with the capability of vertical cobble take off. Probably not though.

Has the tones akin to that of the lomo which is not my cup of tea but I do like the framing and symetry. Interesting take on what I would usually consider the mundane.

:-)

I wish I could come-up with something remotely as impressive in 20 minutes! Great processing - looking forward to the tutorials!

Wow! 10 minutes? I guess you only need one minute if you have the eye for a picture like you do. Very cool. I look here everyday and I wasn't expecting this - which makes it all the more striking!

Strange !! but great !
Love the composition and the contrast of colors

Despite the modern day yellow lines, this has a Victorian feel to me - the cobble-like walkway and what might be construed as "misty light". Not that that sums up the Victorian era mind..:-)

Great shot Dave. I may have to show this my students next week.

Tone, texture, line, perspective, composition, colour, focal point and more, it's all there

WOW, I love this shot, especially the perspective and the colors, btw I love road markings

Dave,

You chose your blobs of yellow paint well.
The conventions of wet roads and moonlight /streetlight would have been interesting ... but might have created the usual ubiquitous shot ...!
I enjoy your spectrum of creativity ... not totally original( after all what is ?)
But, for me, in my early days of digital SLR you are a great catalyst.
Thanks......

Definitely one of my recent favorites. The appearance of the shadows/grime one the cobbles is definitely very interesting. I also have a strong personal bent towards square images (viva 6x6!), so the crop no doubt adds to the overall appeal.

I've been a lurker here for months, and a very infrequent commenter, but I am always amazed at the shots you see that others would simply pass by. You manage to find the extraordinary in what often is the mundane.

Not really very interesting at all.

I'm with Gerome.

Nah...not really. This is quality....and the type I've not seen on this site for ages to be honest (not to say your stuff has been shite dave of course :)...)....just that this takes me back to the kind of stuff that inspired me on here when i first started getting interested in all this and hadn't become bored of reading mindless sycophantic comments and getting completely disenchanted with the whole photoblog thing.
;)

Hi john, i always like the way you work on your picture, and the 'maitrise' of PhotoShop !
The "vignettage " you do on your picture, may be on day you'll teach us (or me) your secret.

http://aroundzeworld.blogspot.com/2006/09/de-qui-peur-la-police-whos-police_18.html

Thanks everyone, and I'll catch up/answer your comments tomorrow as I'm too tired to think let alone type.

good one :) are these tyre treads that we see?

This is just fantastic, the light, the angle all of it just fantastic.

I thought that high aparture (f/18.0) was equal to high diffraction. But I can't see any of it in this picture. Really nice done! Do you have any trick? Did you use a tripod for this?

I really like this one.

Good use of a simple perspective alignment and the colours enhance the subject matter. Only niggle is it's not pin-sharp as per your usual :)

can't stop looking at this one ... fantastic framing/cropping and superb processing

I'm amazed how you are able to trasform a detail into a great shot! Love the tone and the color contrast.