Looking at Erich's lovely images taken from the High Line park in Manhattan, I was reminded of this image I took back in 2019.

The rectilinear forms are an apartment building across the street from the zig zag forms reflected in its windows; the zigzags were designed by the late great architect Zaha Hadid. Both are just west of the High Line; this portion is roughly in the Chelsea neighborhood. Colors are boosted a bit - well, quite a bit - in post.

I suppose I owe apologies to the memory of Ms. Hadid.

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A nice shot, Erich.

FYI, the High Line Park opened in 2009; much of the history can be found at

https://www.thehighline.org/history/

Thanks, and same to you. And welcome back.

When I open a folder in Adobe Bridge, I usually see something like "95 items, 8 hidden." What does this mean? Why are some items hidden? Can they be un-hidden, or revealed?

Back atchya!

I open the Adobe Creative Cloud app that comes with PS & Lightroom. I click Apps, and then I click Updates, and it shows my apps, when they were updated, and which "New updates" are available. I have the most basic subscription, and my apps are Bridge (Beta), Photoshop (Beta), "Camera Raw," Bridge, LR Classic, LR, and PS. Periodically, it shows that Camera Raw has a new update available, and offers a button to click, "Update." Hope that's clear.

Thanks for the suggestion. A friend also suggested a smaller field, which your tucking would achieve, to better display the textures that I'm in the habit of focusing on. I'm gonna give it a try.

Well, getting more leaves was not happening, as we weren't taking another day to go back to Catoctin NP, and they'd be pretty different by the time we got there anyway. And arranging them more randomly seems to be beyond my capability. Then I saw an image on flickr where someone had hung some leaves on a clothes line, which triggered my decision to try an oppositional strategy I've been practicing for nearly 80 years - just ask my dear departed parents. Instead of more nearly random, I went with very orderly. Let me know what you think.

Hopefully, the very opposite of random

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Thanks for your interest, Stan. My main light is a Raya Octabox (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1078572-REG/raya_octa_fluorescent_7_socket.html), set up on the left, just a little in front of the table, and a secondary light on the right, again just a little in front of the table, aimed at the bottom of the paper bag, but also illuminating the right side of the flowers in the vase. However, I suspect that a good bit of what you like in the image may be due to what was done in post. To illustrate, I opened the raw file in ACR, made no adjustments, brought it into Photoshop and again made no adjustments, and exported it, to show you what it looked like before it was processed. I hope nobody prefers this version

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Thanks for your feedback. Do you mean you want to see a steady stream of stuff falling from the bag to the table?

Well, at least that's the argument presented here, and it strikes me as somewhat convincing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiGKA3ydXTs&t=2s

Thank you kp; much appreciated.

Glad you like the concept; an especially encouraging compliment, coming from an art teacher. As for the clean-up ... ahh ... uhm ... well ... not yet. After all, pursuant to the input of my colleagues, I will have to re-shoot.

Thanks for your very kind assessment of my attempt to look like a classic painter, which was precisely my goal. And I'm happy to know I'm not alone in fridge abandonment. I'll give a shot at cropping up, but I'm unsure about the plank sitting on the edge of the frame; maybe it will fuffice to just make the stuff underneath a touch darker.

Thank you, Linda from Yakima, Maine. (You know, Google maps can't seem to find that location. ) I appreciate your review of the things I've done pretty well with, and I'm glad you saw the bag spilling. You may recall an image of leaves I posted awhile back, where I got comments about the leaves not being arranged with sufficient randomness. I worked with that image through several iterations, finally concluding that purposefully arranged randomness is a target I'm not well-equipped to hit. (I'll post my solution to that problem sooner or later.) If I remove all the nuts, leaves, and fallen blossoms, I might lose some of my sense of chaos, and I think I might have to crop in a bit from the left, and there'd still be a little too much empty table top for my taste. Still, I'll fool with that arrangement one more time and see if I can get that well-ordered disorder. Maybe I'll try scooping up all the nuts and shells and just spilling them out with my eyes closed.