Ricardo - that one is even better!
Ricardo, those are really good. You're raising the bar.
News from elsewhere on POTN . . . My pink rose from last week's challenge, reposted as a larger version, won the G-series competition with the theme "A Dominant Color."
This is really nice Ricardo. Like the colors.
Cool, OhLook. And deserved. That was a lovely rose! Congratulations.
Richard, that's another wonderful entry. You're good at this!
For me this is terra incognita. Never done an abstract. Exciting!
Congrats, OhLook!! That was a lovely picture.
Love the second one, Ricardo!
Thank you all so much.
And congrats to you OhLook...a much deserved award and a good indication that you do have a terrific eye.
I've been thinking a bit about this abstract theme and it's place in photography. (That's one of the great things about this thread...how it encourages us to expand our horizons!) To me, and I may well be over-simplifying things, there are three main branches to abstract photography. One is where we arrange items to form a particular composition, pretty much how a painter might create shapes on canvas. The second is where we take from a scene that already exists some detail that has significance in itself but only tells part of the story, so it qualifies as "abstract" in itself. And the third is where we photograph a particular scene but present it such a way that it has become "abstract" in the sense that through PP or lighting the subject is no longer as obvious and may require some interpretation.
All of these ways to the abstract are interesting and will be of appeal depending on the way we prefer to work. And of course there are bound to be other significant routs to the abstract that I haven't thought of.
Obviously, in my two images the abstract is about reduction, if that's the word...the emphasis on small details of something that already exists, where those details contain something of the spirit of the wider subject.
I don't know if that makes sense, and I would love to hear what appeals to others in the concept of abstract images in photography.
