should I clean the wall

[SmartWombat]

So many of the window boxes in German towns have red flowers in. I'm surprised there isn't a law mandating that they must be red

But should I remove the handprints and bird poo from the wall ?
Or leave it as it was shot ?

[caleb]

I vote for remove, this is a clean nice image. I would also clean up some of the window, at least what's showing from the inside

[Frog]

Don't know about the bird doo but I'd actually like the hand print to show more. Don't know if that's possible in pp.

[Greg McCary]

Bird Poop yes, hand prints no.

[Didache]

A great image Paul and a definite keeper! It is such a clean image that I would remove the poop - it distracts I think from the overall clean-ness of it.

Cheers
Mike

[LeeIs]

I love it Paul! I think your composition and placement of the window is right on. I even love the handle thingy that comes in and breaks the squareness of it. The stain can remain also, i don't mind it. Nothing is perfect in life after all :-)

edit: ooops didn't really notice the hand print. I say let it be. or remove it. but the poo is great! lol . I usually like to comment before reading others' comments, that way, i'm not being persuaded by them.

[readingr]

I agree just the bird poo,

Lovely image Paul, I thought they did have the red flower law.

Roger

[gahspidy]

Lovely image. I like the inclusion of the handrail below. I say clean the poo. . .

[JTcooper]

I thinks you have capture the UFO on the top right glass ehh other than that yes, bring out the garden hose.

[erikzen]

I like it just the way it is.

[MichaelD]

It is such a clean image that I would remove the poop - it distracts I think from the overall clean-ness of it

Exactly, that's my thoughts too. While can be effective to have two total opposites in a shot, in this case it doesn't work because the hands are hardly visible and the bird poo won't be recognised by every viewer as bird poo.

[natgaines]

Hehe, UFO for sure! I'm in vote for removal of the poo, but if that depends on what you're trying to really express in the picture? I'm typically more serious, clean-cut photog, so I'd personally remove it. But based on some of the other pictures I've seen from you Paul, it does add that fun element I see in your other pictures! Both works!

[Xia_Ke]

I would leave the poo. It is a very nice shot. I think taking the poo out would make the shot too "clean".

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” - Havelock Ellis

[Didache]

To clone, or not to clone: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The marks and smears of outrageous birdies,
Or to take arms against a flock of seagulls,
And by opposing end them? To clone: to clone;
No more; and by a clone to say we end
The poop and the thousand natural marks
That walls are heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To clone, to clone;
To clone: perchance to clean: ay, there's the rub ....

[Greg McCary]

To clone, or not to clone: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The marks and smears of outrageous birdies,
Or to take arms against a flock of seagulls,
And by opposing end them? To clone: to clone;
No more; and by a clone to say we end
The poop and the thousand natural marks
That walls are heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To clone, to clone;
To clone: perchance to clean: ay, there's the rub ....

ROTFL, Mike. Are you ever out shooting a scene and instead of cleaning up for the shot think to yourself. Ahhh " I will just clone that right out when I get home."? I do it fairly often.
That's the worse kind of Poop too, the purple stuff. Arrggg.

[SmartWombat]

Nice Mike.
Elderberries have an inevitable result on the clean sheets on the washing line, once the birds have "processed" them.