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"Underneath the Arches" was a 1930s song by comedy and singing duo Flanagan and Allen. The arches in this week's image are a bit more up to date and hold up the Infinity Bridge in Stockton on Tees, UK.
The challenge for this week is to bring both together and show us what goes on underneath the arches.
Anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
When posting back your edited images please use jpeg and downsize to 1200px on the long side.
To download the image below in jpeg format with ICC color profile (sRGB) and without the forum scaling artefacts , right click and then use Save Image As /Save Target As (or similar depending on your browser).
Have fun
Dave
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davescm wrote
"Underneath the Arches" was a 1930s song by comedy and singing duo Flanagan and Allen.
"Pavement is a pillow no matter where we stray
Underneath the arches we dream our dreams away"
— Flanagan And Allen - Underneath The Arches - YouTube
~ Jane
I've gone for Above the Arches.
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Some great entries so far 
Jane - that looks like a happy camper !
Graham - I didn't know who she was until I did a quick search and this forum thread came up : Meet Tabby Backguard
Dean - That is close to an actual event. When the bridge was opened they had parkour freerunners climbing the arches with flares.
Trevor - great job!. The black and white fits well with the theme - as does the London bus.
Rista - Are they the trolls asking for the tolls? Love it - and nice job with the threatening sky!
If you've read this thread and have an idea - post it! Everyone is welcome.
Dave
Hmmmm... I recognized the big smoke stacks, but not the car.
This actually fought back a wee bit, and I had to rethink how to do the rope. It also went a bit weird on me — I was going to put it up with 128 colour depth but it looked too muted, so I thought, blow the bandwidth and did it again with the full 256 colours. The weird bit is that the file size came _down_! How is that even possible? I has still lost saturation in the jumper. I bet Dag would tell me that the jumper was something like Adobe RGB, and lost saturation when imported into Dave's sRGB starter image.
Ouch Jane. From what I read, not only was Eric A Barcia using plain vanilla bungee cords of the type you'd use to hold things to your bike rack, and not the specialist bungee 'rope' designed for jumping off bridges
...but he apparently carefully measured his knotted bungee cords to match the 70 foot height of the bridge he intended jumping off, without allowing for the elastic stretching. It didn't slow him down at all. 
Even so called professional bungee jumps can go wrong. Dave will remember the tragic accident on Noel Edmonds' 'Late Late Breakfast' show in 1986, where a stunt went horribly wrong, and a bungee jumper became unattached to the rope. I had not read the results of the inquest until just now, and that incident was beyond incompetent. Testing on the carabiner clip they used to attach the bungee rope showed it would spring open 14 times out of 20 with just the weight of a bag of sugar — it makes your blood run cold just thinking about it. When I was climbing we used redundant anchor points, two ropes, and when possible, locking carabiners. The show was lucky to get a Misadventure verdict at the inquest. The show was canceled and no more episodes were ever made, and Noel Edmonds disappeared from television.
Hi
Dean - Lots of previous SFTW elements in that one - I like the way the railway line has been used.
Joan - I like the hot rod - it could use a shadow underneath to make it fit. (I think your later reply may have been a reply to Trevor not me )
Trevor - nice job with the bungee. I do indeed remember that incident. Horrific!
Jane - there have been two challenges with cars.
1. Something for the weekend - Part 5 - It's a wrap! which was a real car.
2. Something for the weekend - Part 54 - Lifestyle which contained the car I modelled in Blender 3D, and which was used by Dean this week. Actually I only ever modelled the front - I might use it again in a future challenge and ask the SFTW team to complete the car and show us the back.
Dave
Dave, I love the underwater image, but it is saying Close Encounters of the Third Kind to me, with a huge alien space craft hovering over the bridge at night.
Dean, I can't believe it took so long for someone to think of a graffiti angle. The bridge stanchion is perhaps a bit limited for space, but you could still do some meaningful artwork with a SFTW flavour. I'm thinking slogans like 'Photoshop Rules', and 'We hate those Illustrator People' 
Trevor.Dennis wrote
'We hate those Illustrator ß@$‡@®Φ$'
Trevor!!!!!!! I used to like you until 30 seconds ago, hahaha! 
Jane, I know it was a bad thing to do, but I couldn't resit. I thought I'd leave it up for half an hour, and then edit it out, but there was always the chance of being quoted. 
I'm not a soccer fan, but it's the sort of chant they use at matches.
We hate West Ham
We hate West Ham
We are the West Ham... haters.
Bless their little hearts.
Trevor, it made me laugh and I'm still laughing, but you know I had to respond! Plus it gave me a chance to throw this together. Mostly in Illustrator!
~ Jane
Trevor.Dennis wrote
Dean, I can't believe it took so long for someone to think of a graffiti angle...
I saw a person on that column when I first looked at the image but thought that approach may be too obvious
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