Désolé mais je comprends mal l'intérêt de cette photo

Abstract and nice play of light!

A lot of potential with this subject. I just don't like the composition. The furniture cut like it is is distracting. The image is much more interesting in the bottom half. The framing is too tall, the upper part of the gate is not adding anything.

I also like the play of light here where the gate is almost silhouetted but the shaddow is still well defined. Although I don't mind the furniture so much, I do find the mat quite distracting. I like the fact that this is an "everyday" scene that you saw great potential in and captured very nicely. Well done.

Well done! I feel it's difficult to give you a comment becouse your level of photographing is so much higer then mine. But I'll give it a try... :)

How tall is the cactus actually? I guess about a few inch? Maybe add it to Best Macro, too? Anyway, I love it. I love the other one with the red cactus too, but however I love colours in general, I prefer this one becouse of its shadows. The slightly panoramic view was a good choice, but maybe you could have shown some more cactus on the bottum of the frame. Now I feel something is missing, namely the plant's base. I figured maybe you should have cropped away the succulent, I simulated it with a peace of paper... but no... just leave it there.

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Tamara

Thanks Tamara, this is a small dish garden, the main cactus subject is about 3" tall and about 5" across. The bottom crop is because of the rim of the dish and a unattractive bulge/growth on the base of the cactus. This is a Opuntia microdasys, a Mexican succulent.

Here is a detail shot of the same type of plant that is about 3.5' tall, I guess I will have to plant mine in the ground if I want it to get that big!!:

www.clydebeamer.com/?p=70

I have a special bound with cactuses and succulents. They're the only plants which live for longer then a year at my home... :P They're Tamara-proof. I think I'll try to make something like yours of my own plants.

Thanks for sharing.

I live in Southern California in one of the valleys that regularly get at or over 100 for days at a time. We just had 9 days in a row... One thing I really like is hanging baskets, but here they just won't live. A lady told me a couple of years ago to put succulents and cacti in the hanging baskets. Worked brilliantly. This spring I had to start over 'cause they had gotten so overgrown in the baskets, I had to take them and put them in pots or in the grown and start new baskets!! Give it a try.

Where do you live?

I live in the Netherlands, about 14 kilometers at north of Amsterdam. To get an impression of the enviroment over here: www.vazaar.com/user:sfkp/photos/id:29924/
or
www.vazaar.com/user:sfkp/photos/id:29883/

In other words: wet, sometimes sunny, sometimes not, no real winters with lang lasting snow but it freezes here a couple of days a year. 100 F or 35 degrees Celsius is max, maybe a couple of days a year. So... cactussen and succulents won't live at my balkony for a long time :)

Wow, a great, great one.
Tiny detail : the white spot on the right might have been darkened in post processing.

Anyway, congratulations Vincenzo.

Excellent !!

perfect for the "Shadow" theme.

I really like this shot.

Thank you Ana!

Beautiful ! I love this particular atmosphere, really good work. And your framing is perfect. :)

Thanks so much Martine...your kind words are appreciated!

this is crazy cool creepy

Thanks much Ana... I sure thought so.

The lights are out, but that didn't stop something magical from happening. All that was needed was a brief moment to cast a great shadow. Well done.

Nice composition but in particular I like the texture of the cement.

Brilliant!

Very interesting. What's it of?

I think it is some sort of cactus, isn't it? Interesting photo, but I know You can better even this cactus!

Ouch...

very interesting abstraction

Looks great! The shadows add to the population of twigs. Nice sandstone background too!

Nice shadow work!

Thanks Apruva and Scott. The background is actually sand at the beach. I cloned out 2 footprints because they were distracting. (A lesson I learned from JVGPhoto.)