The colour is wonderful as is the composition out of seeming chaos!

Awesome maritime shot! Stay well!

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BLUE...tiful harbour scene.

D-sturbing.

But the flag was flown yet another week.

Wot flag?

The one that signals that I'd been somewhere and did something that resulted in a new picture(s).

But in this case it's a slightly disappointing one, there being, once uploaded to Ipernity, Flickr, Facebook etc., no discernable gain in image quality over similar pictures taken on smaller-sensored cameras.

The image quality looks very good to me.
It's the composition that I find disturbing - chaotic contrasts with no focal point.

The chaotic arrangement of boats and (all four primary) colours is the very point of this picture, and there is a focal point of sorts - the blue boat, lower left, 'penned in' by the others. But if you don't like that sort of picture, fair enough. It's a personal preference, like square/rectangular or the amount of foreground and sky.

In this case (perversely, vis a vis Faversham) the image quality would have been better if taken with a small-sensor camera or even a smartphone, which would have provided the necessary depth of field.

Yes, it's my personal preference that I tend not to like square, but I find this visually disturbing in the neurological sense, as my eye is being taken in all directions with no focal point. The blue boat on the lower left is hardly a focal point when there is so much more above it.

Roy has suggested that the sailboat and figures could be the focal point if cropped into a rectangular portrait.

The foreground doesn't work as well, and too much interesting detail is lost when cropped like that. Sorry.

Roy says you can have too much interesting detail sometimes and it's best to leave some of it to the imagination. Sorry.

So I realised when I was still in that state when "detail" interested me. Get too close to something and one become unable to see it any more.

The degree to which different people are neurologically sensitive to visual disturbances may differ widely, and this is bound to influence their artistic judgement. I have my own and although I sometimes agree with him, in this case it's clearly different from Roy's, and he and I will have to agree to differ.

Yes, you certainly have your own style. I can usually recognise your pictures from a thumbnail, without needing to read the name.

The neurological sensitivity of which I speak may go beyond visual disturbances; it may also influence the ease and readiness with which the eye is drawn to one or other part of a picture. This is something which can be studied scientifically, and I would expect any such studies to show significant differences between individuals. It's another thing likely to influence artistic judgement.