This happened one day in the window well outside my office. I got banned from r/pics for posting it.

[otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Composition*, fellow human.

[rizzrustbolt@lemmy.world]

Quest item.

[geedubhayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm coming!

[oldmanbombin@lemmy.world]

I have a mental image of you in a basement sweatshop in Philadelphia- the air is full of smoke and there's a constant barrage of German speeches and gunfire being played over the loudspeaker, broken only by the occasional steam whistle. You take a longing glance out the window, wishing you were on one of the higher floors so you could jump. And there is it.

Pinecone.

[bagofheavystones@piefed.social]

Looking for a giant peach.

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

Ah, nice catch.

[psycho_driver@lemmy.world]

I think I got banned from /r/pics for some random comment too. We can be twinsees.

[buddascrayon@lemmy.world]

Honestly, deep fried images usually give me a headache but this one is actually pretty nice. I think the horrible HDR gives it a painting like quality.

[apollosarrow@lemmy.world]

TIL what a window well is. I would honestly love to see what it looks like from outside. Is there some kind of covered up grate on top?

[ripcord@lemmy.world]

Sometimes. The smaller (typical?) ones tend to either be fully covered or have a grate. Many are big enough to stand in, to have plants/garden, or even be used as emergency exits. And might not have any covering.

This one almost definitely had a grate of some kind.

[rbos@lemmy.ca]

It's been a while, so probably new to me. Yay.

[mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works]

It’s not HDR. It’s a single shot, slightly underexposed so we don’t lose the highlight detail. The rest of the work could have been done in a physical darkroom. But thank you.

[mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works]

It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.

The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.

[mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works]

Here it is several years later. It’s an office that I rent. The landlord apparently does not care about maintaining the windows.

[mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works]

Right? I don’t get it. They gave no reason except pointing to a rule that stated no posting someone else’s work as your own. Which obviously was not the case here. But they did not respond to a request to look into it.

[vxx@lemmy.world]

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[axel7fb5@lemmy.cafe]

I won, but at what cost? My fellow cones perished.

[jacksilver@lemmy.world]

I was so confused by the image initially as I hadn't seen a window well that deep before. This follow-up picture made it all click, thanks for sharing.

[krudler@lemmy.world]

I got banned because I told everybody who was mocking that retarded weather guy to stop mocking him.

[blametheantifa@lemmy.world]

I remember trying to warn people on Reddit that their anti-AI crusades were going to hurt real people making real art, especially surrealists, and got banned from a bunch of art subs for being “pro-AI” as a result. Actually, they phrased it in far more hurtful and inflammatory ways, like “advocating theft.” Apparently caring about not hurting real human beings making real human art is “advocating theft.”

I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.

P.S. This photo is beautiful and I’m happy you had a mind to capture it and share it. Thank you.