Hi chromasia.
Well, I'd like to ask you a question.
(hope you'll excuse my poor english....I leave in France)
Do you never make some touch up ?
I don't whant to get you uncomfortable, it's just a simple curiosity.
Anyway, your work is as always : excellent.

'gards.

"It must be comforting to have such blind faith in your own certainties ;-)"

.. I still don't know what you meant by that. But I think it fits for this.

pierre-nelson: I guess it depends on what you mean by "touch up". If you mean do I remove things from a shot: yes, sometimes, things like dust spots, small distracting details, and so on, but nothing substantial (well, very rarely).

miklos: do me a favour – if you want to continue the discussion we've been via email, that's fine, but don't post any more out-of-context extracts from my messages to you here. Publishing private emails, no matter how you look at it, is ill-mannered.

A really pleasing image Dave, it might not be one to set the world on fire, but it has nice tones, you can almost feel the texture of that wood, and it contrasts nicely with the line of stones. Its a good mark of your professionalism that even when you might not feel hugely inspired, you can still turn in a high standard of work.

Best wishes
mattp

Hrmm I wonder how those rocks got in there? Interesting picture.

mattp: I guess I'm a bit dissatisfied with this one because it doesn't quite capture the light in the way I wanted it to. But I'm gald you like it.

Raffi: this is near to the top of the beach, below the high-tide mark, so I imagine that someone lined them up in there at some point. It's the sort of thing our kids would do.

Dave,
I would love to see this one in colour. I think it is a superb shot but probably better not b&w.

Shame about that one piece of grass...

A

Adrian: I shot this one intending to process it as a colour shot, but it didn't work out – the wood is pale, but neither bleached nor particularly colourful, and the stones didn't complement the wood, or each other. As for the blade of grass: I quite like it, mostly because of the small shadow it casts.

thank you, mr. nightingale for making my days! it's a pure pleasure to see what's new on "chromasia". please, don't break your habit!

I like this - and was instantly reminded of two things:
1) As a child, on the beach near my home, I would often try to prise stones like these from the gaps in breakwaters. The force of the tides puts them there, and they are often impossible to remove.
2) The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, something I first learned of over 25 years ago and for which there is no direct parallel in Western society.
Thanks for the memories Dave.

It made me smile in that dark day... :)

I very much like this. (As I confessed a couple days ago, I like weathered wood grain, so there are automatic points for that alone.) It might not "dance" for some people because, even though it has a full range of tones, a lot of the tone is close to the same, separated by stridations.

But it's a wonderful study. You can see the hard grains, the soft grains, the rotted sections, the termite eaten, knots, smooth sections and cracks, and maybe a nail. To contrast the texture, you have washed, rounded stones, a bit of grass and leaves, and ... something else.

I cannot imagine the colors to have any importance. A scene made for b&w!

Rock, paper, scissors -- the sea always beats wood in the long run, but the wood always reveals so much of its character in the tussle.

The tones are nice and so are the textures.

Hi chromasia,

Thx for your answer. Yes, I meant dust "spots, small distracting" somtething that I founded in some pictures. Anyway, this is a comments zone, so, I stop asking questions and I do place for real serious comments about your shots : "This one is very nice and asking for a question : do the stones were here before you shoted it?"...

Thx chromasia.
'gards.

Hi David,
I don't like this, I think it's bland, it is soothing though, but I find it uninteresting, the shot from yesterday with the spiral gave some excitement to the eyes and a curiosity.

Not your best work by a long way, it is a little bland but im not bothered cos liverpool won the champions league! Yay!

There seems to be a monster with a rather small eye hidding in the shadows... haha! i like the tones of it. (i meant the wood)

I personally like this photo very much. Wood grain is always a good choice in photos, but my eye is drawn to the shadowed hole above the stones. It makes me wonder how many different creatures have lived there over the passing years.

The photo is great, so are the other ones aswell. But, isn't it time to change location?

Really good tecture here and a well-spotted feature with the stones pushed in between. Good in this tone too.

As a former geologist, this is great stuff. Even though it's wood, It still reminds me of my days on the beach looking at sandstone. I have to say, all your work is fantastic.

~good tones!~

so many interesting details and variations in the texture... kept me busy for a long time!

Thanks everyone.

a dragon, in sea world.

one of my favorites.