...branches being brightly backlit by bending beams before bonded building blocks.
I took this silhouette of a potted plant (stem) at work, in front of the glass brick wall, backlit by a cloudless sunset.
The "naturally-lit" version is OK but dull--the shot with the best perspective did not really show the golden lighting, so I'm going with a version using more (radical) tone curves applied to individual color channels, making the cool patterns in the glass more visible, and helping the sticks stand out.
Crop/resize, multiple tone curves, plain black border; no sharpening on the colorized version (I ran 2 passes with USM on the "normal" version).
Awesome colors in the glass blocks. Has a really surreal feel about it. Not so sure about the subject. Looks like something getting in the way more than anything.
It's probably my own ignorance, or something, but this shot really doesn't appeal to me. Though I like the bright colors, it almost looks like it has used extreme post-processing to cover up a basic flaw in the photograph.
I had to look up "bifurcating" as I had no idea what it meant and got the following definition "to divide into two branches or parts" - so I'm still not sure what it has to do with this picture??
Is that something in front of the glass bricks? Even if it isn't a split in the glass I feel it would meet the challenge as it visually splits up the picture. Lots of procesing but the colours work well together, good luck with it.
Bicurcating: To separate into two parts or branches; fork. If nothing else, I just learned something new ... had to look up what your title means :) Met the challenge. This very much looks like digital art to me, and it doesn't often happen that that kind of shot appeals to me. Unfortunately, you fell a bit short of it here, too. The "thing" on the right that's branching out, is it a branch? Judging by the title, this is the subject of your photo, to me, without the title, it's a little distracting from those glass block windows. Not sure about the colors, either, sorry ... :( I guess I just don't get it.
Bifurcating... that's a new one to me! I'll add it to my vocab. I'm not averse to abstracts, but this one just doesn't do it for me... and I don't think you thought of the word first and then took the picture, so it feels like this has been stretched to meet the challenge. The intereference patterns are interesting, but the overall composition is not pleasing to my eye... the branching line is not immediately obvious, so once you know what the word means, the relevance still doesn't jump out at you. Perhaps if you cropped so that only the 1 1/2 squares in the bottom right were visible this might improve it for me. 4
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