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wolfnowl

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2014, 02:56:07 am »

Not sure if these are 'abstract' enough, but...


2011 Lighted Ships Parade by wolfnowl, on Flickr

2011 IEOA Lighted Truck Parade by wolfnowl, on Flickr

Clouds by wolfnowl, on Flickr

Zygote by wolfnowl, on Flickr

Vents by wolfnowl, on Flickr

Underlying Currents by wolfnowl, on Flickr

Bubbles by wolfnowl, on Flickr

Fun With Mirrors - Spider by wolfnowl, on Flickr

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Vents, Underlying Currents and Bubbles are Marcia's not mine.  She uses her cell phone and I push them around in LR.
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #41 on: January 24, 2014, 04:02:29 am »

I like 1645-46-48QN, though I think it needs a catchier title.

Thin ice on the flowing waters of the Roasco Creek, as seen from the small bridge near the Casera, West Grosina Valley. (I fear it's even less catchy to english speaking people than the alphanumeric one)


Not sure if these are 'abstract' enough, but...




... but in the zygote there are some signs of Kandinsky :o
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2014, 01:24:06 pm »

Great thread! I like your truck (?), Mike.

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2014, 04:25:44 pm »

Got another one.

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2014, 04:42:18 pm »

Ooh! I like that!
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #45 on: January 24, 2014, 05:23:32 pm »

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« Reply #46 on: January 24, 2014, 06:00:24 pm »

I'll throw this one in under the sensu lato definition of abstract.

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #47 on: January 24, 2014, 06:59:01 pm »

That is definitely in the top ten so far, IMHO.
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #48 on: January 24, 2014, 10:15:36 pm »

Lots of good stuff. I used to poo poo "abstracts." But I finally learned that no matter what we shoot or paint or draw or sculpt, if people can relate to it and you like it, it is worth the look and effort. Here's a few from a series after a snow storm. I could not resist the red amid the snow:





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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #49 on: January 25, 2014, 12:08:01 am »

These two are as real as it gets, yet I hope qualify at least as semi-abstracts. From the Lake Superior:

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #50 on: January 25, 2014, 12:21:59 am »

They're fine. Sometimes reality is abstract.
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Re: Variations on a Theme
« Reply #51 on: January 25, 2014, 01:02:45 am »

I'll throw this one in under the sensu lato definition of abstract.

Well seen, and captured!

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #52 on: January 25, 2014, 04:30:03 am »

Another (the last) icy "abstract", some years ago: my favorite (loved) pool at the end of September. You can see reflected the sky and the  "Visega" (Festuca scabriculmis, yellow, by that time). West Grosina Valley, near the Rusgiai...


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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #53 on: January 25, 2014, 07:02:19 pm »

That is definitely in the top ten so far, IMHO.

Yup.  Beautifully done, churly.
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #54 on: January 25, 2014, 09:30:43 pm »

That's OK Michael, makes a beautiful abstract.

Rich

Thank you. The unexpected play of the light made photographing these seemingly mundane soap bubbles quite the experience

 

 
 
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #55 on: January 26, 2014, 02:22:21 am »

Some great work here!  Peter's 'wooden web' reminded me of this one, from a few years ago.  Sort of an electrician's nightmare:



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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #56 on: January 26, 2014, 10:26:52 am »

Hey Mike, really like your abstracts. I lean more to the subtle ones, like your zygotes. I think Freeman Patterson called a lot of these, non-representational imagery rather than "abstract." Of course many are abstract. It doesn't matter, if done well, I still like them.

Here are three which I did using in-camera motion techniques.





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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #57 on: January 26, 2014, 01:40:13 pm »

WOW !
This thread is exploding within no time - seems it was overdue.
And there's some stunning work in it !

Time to contribute:
Though I am not exactly sure which of these qualify as abstracts I posted them.
At least , I believe, they have some sort of abstraction of something in them.

Cheers
Chris
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #58 on: January 26, 2014, 01:50:39 pm »

This time one quite different from my previous one.

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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
« Reply #59 on: January 26, 2014, 02:16:44 pm »

Haven't posted in a while, so what the hey. Of all the shots I took at The Wave a few years back (most of them forgettable), this one stood out for me.

It was shot as you first climb up into the main wave segment.

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