Excellent !

Sad that we have to lock everything up now eh? I remember the days when one could go shopping and leave the front door open.

Interesting shot regarding safety, did you know there are what is termed "Ghost Bikes" painted completely white and chained somewhere at locations where a cyclist was killed in a road traffic accident?. I'm not sure if this is done all around the uk bit in and around London I have seen them on Google street. Nice capture. http://www.londonremembers.com/memorial_types/ghost-bike

Very good capture and postwork it's interesting that they lock up the frame and not the wheels (wheels are the most stolen parts of the bike)

fun !

Yes good idea but I see your point re health & safety.

a masterly fiddle to go with your wry observations

So what you are saying is that it is not illegal if the police do it? Well, there's your problem right there. My mother used to tell me, "If you want to keep it, lock it up." Nice fiddle.

The mind boggles. How many locks are ON that thing??

Superb capture Andrea. God bless

Lots of geometry in this keep-your-bicycle-well-secured-no-matter-where-you-are pic of the two wheeled vehicle, chained to the railing and posing a hazard to all those who encounter it.

Lol, that's bureaucracy for ya; rules for them and rules for us!! It's quite similar to my bike, well except for the color of the tires and fenders and all the locks. (I just have one and usually forget to use it!!) When I was down in southern California a couple of years ago, my sister and I rode down to a sweet little bar on the oceanfront in Newport Beach. As we sat at the bar in the window, we noticed we had locked our bikes to a sign that said, "No bicycles on sidewalk"! We had another drink, then rode off!!

I agree!

yes good idea. wonder if any of them got stolen

the post work is wonderful Andrea, makes it look like ink drawing rather then a photo. Marvelous! I thought the same thing as you while I was reading about it .. and them you made the exact comment I was thinking!

Isn't that the way of it? Someone should trip over it and sue them for the hazard! But the digifiddle is lovely, of course, as you are the reigning queen of the fiddle!

2 such different versions! The flickr version is a visual slap, with that bold red, and that bold contrasted composition. This is a more controlled study, but it still has wonderful counterpoints. I'm skipping ahead, with this, because I have to end here for today (I'll be back, I already have comments formulating for more); but I wanted to do this because I really loved it the second it went up. Again, zoom reveals a world. You create both edge colonies as well as grain; and you get an almost painted-on-sand look. Or like the textures of those mandalas which Tibetan monks make out of sands and colored stones. (Then they destroy it in a second, after spending days making them.) The composition---very complex---becomes very vivid in your treatment, because so many edges and surfaces are now electric with atomized forms. And the big handrail spills into place above the bike, and it's stunning in that deep crimson and black. A very complex composition, and I love your treatment. You have some other treated pics after this, and I'll get to them next time; but this is terrific. And re the hazard of a warning made to avoid hazards, it reminds me of our old mayor, Richard J Daley (one of the old school corrupt city mayors), who said, after the Chicago police beat protesters at the 1968 Presidential Convention: "Ladies and gentlemen: We're not here to 'create' disorder: We're here to preserve disorder..." (He was a lovely man...)

oh, this is cool with this fresh green between all other.. well seen Andrea and belated ..HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, MAY MANY HAPPY MORE WILL FOLLOW THIS!

I am far from an 'English' major but doesn't this fall into the "oxymoron" category?????