Stills

This is a real case of finding a picture where seemingly there might not be one. The three lit windows are quite hypnotic. I suppose it wouldn't be the same visually if it were four lit windows (like the thirds rule, there is the odd numbers rule).

When they switch off all the lights, you will be walking home in the dark!
 

Clearly, this brick wall test shows that you are using the latest biogonoflexicron and you should be using a sonnarlux.

Love it. Plus what John said.
 

I love it too for all the reasons mentionned above.

My first reflection was that geometry could have been stricter, but then I saw the thing in the lower left corner. And then after a while I changed my mind. Nothing to change. Just a great image to savour.
 

I like the concept of walking home in the dark as a theme. This image stands on its own but also fits well into your theme. This gets me on the levels of simplicity, abstraction and pattern.

I spent a day learning about the RPS and RPS panels. It isn't really my kind of photograph, as it requires thought about a theme. A successful panel was shown where the chap had gone for colour abstracts. They were all abstractions from cars; body lines, features or reflections.
The panel presentation is completely defined by the photographer. So this photographer had chosen the colour match and symetry through the panel and event he body lines flowed through the panel. His panel and the individual images were stunning. He had take 2 years and 200 images to obtain his RPS panel. Just to demonstrate this is not my kind of photography I thought wow but get a life! That is not meant to denigrate his work, as it was very good, it just shows my lack of ability to have a theme and to devote such a perios and effort to something that I still regard as fun.

This group does produce themes that I admire; perhaps the admiration is increased by my inability to produce a theme.

The PAGB offer a ‘gong’ based on having a quantity of images where they achieve an average score of 20 (out of 30) across 10 images. I have a club member pushing me to do this. The advantage is no theme. Images are randomly presented to the 6 judges. I am contemplating!!!

(is this on the blog twice?/)
 

Matt - I forgot to mention the rather neat black key-line round the image (we call them key-lines here).

Rex - interesting observations. I'm not too enamoured of the PAGB (or its representative on earth here in Wales, the WPF) because they tend to exclude quite a lot of the type of photography that I like. I'm not sure that they would 'get' this picture.
 

I am being pushed hard by Anne at our club to try for the CPAGB and the RPS. I am not quite sure to what extent she wants to use me to shake things up a bit. My images at club level can get a 10 or a 6 a week apart.

I admire her work a great deal, I'm finding it hard to ignore her!
 

The lower left and the small inclusion of flora(?) bottom towards the right are simple touches that break this up well. The correct window is dark as there is nothing to its right of 'interest' in the picture which allows the viewer to fill in the next part of the pattern as they see fit.
 

An image I'd likely never have thought to take. I appreciate the "simplicity, abstraction and pattern" in Rex's words, but I am grateful for the little plant stems below the darkened window, and the small streaky imperfections.