mixedmedia

I know a lot of people like to play around with abstraction in their photography.

For myself, they are sometimes deliberate and sometimes 'happy accidents.' Doesn't matter either way as I see it.

This thread is a place to share some of your favorite non-narrative photos.









(Note: I'm about two months into a project to re-edit all of my older photo sets - I'm all the way up to June 2007, woohoo! - so as I move forward (and delete older editions from flickr) old threads of mine in this forum will become full of blanks. Just so folkses knowses...)

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ALSO, it would be especially cool if folks who don't normally participate in this forum do so on this thread. Grab that phone and photograph the sidewalk, a storefront, tree bark, whatever...it's fun.

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ring

"ALSO, it would be especially cool if folks who don't normally participate in this forum do so on this thread. Grab that phone and photograph the sidewalk, a storefront, tree bark, whatever...it's fun."

I too would like to encourage folks to participate. I'm newish to digital photography
& still learning about all these newfangled buttons & settings.

rmarshall

This was a "happy accident". I was actually trying to get photos for a "motion"/"stop motion" assignment.
I sat in the second row of the K-ROCK Centre in Kingston watching a demonstration of skateboarders and guys on BMX bikes.
I was shooting with the flash as the guys were flying in front of me. I had a narrow view in my 70-300 mm lens set at 70 mm on my Rebel XT.

In this photo, three guys magically appeared at the same time. The only adjustments I made were some levels in Lightroom, I swear!



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This is a closeup of my turn signal on my bike.


This is the same photo after I fiddled around with saturation and colour levels.

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mixedmedia

excellent, folks. thanks for participating. here's an old photo I just rediscovered today...and discovered there was more to it than I saw at first. happy accident, for sure.

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Manic_Skafe

That's a part of the shadow cast by the Unisphere in Flusing Meadows Park. The lines within the shadow are skateboard tracks.

Your first shot is awesome, MM.

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mixedmedia

thank you, Arion. it is my favorite, too. one of my favorites that I have ever taken, actually.

that said, I am enamored of your shadow image.

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dlish

the Dome of a mosque in Casablanca morrocco


same mosque



The Mezequita in Andulusia in southern spain in Cordoba.

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mixedmedia

that's the ticket, thank you, dlish

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Manic_Skafe

Thanks, MM.

Excellent photos, Dlish. I've always wanted to see the Mezquita in person and seeing your last photo brings me back to my first ever art history course, zoning out while imagining myself under those ceilings. Beautiful stuff. Thanks for sharing that.

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ring

Lovely photos, everyone. Mixed, I really like the window covered with greenish...snow? Pollen?
Very nice.

mixedmedia

I think it was tape residue or something like that...

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thank you

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rmarshall

I noticed if you scroll up and down quickly while looking at this photo, the rings rotate.

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Love the old Huffy image, mixedmedia.
rmarshall, that ice formation is gorgeous.

mixedmedia

some nighttime screw-ups.
waste not, want not

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rmarshall

Seasonal abstracts

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ring

rmarshall, those images are wow magic & remind of the times when my younger self
would scoot beneath the tree, & admire it from a different angle.

Confederate

Chapel from the Air Force Academy

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mixedmedia

sweet photos, everyone, thank you.

ring, I really love that rooster. it looks like a photo you would see on a museum site. like an archeological find. and it makes me realize that one day all of our tacky shit prob. will end up on a museum site with people saying 'wow, would you look at that.' lol

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ring

Spot on, ms.media. Thanks.

mixedmedia

stayed in a hotel on Monday night. when we came out on Tuesday morning everything was frozen. sort of.

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paddyjoe

what sweet colors, mm....

snowy

Ever since this thread popped up, I've been looking for these pictures that I took on spring break a couple years ago. Here are a couple:

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mixedmedia

yay! excellent. thanks for posting, snowy.
what is that second photo? it almost looks like a delicious mountain of whipped cream. or I could be projecting, lol.
<-- loves whipped cream.

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rmarshall

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mixedmedia

nice! thank you, Marshall and star!

what is the white surface with golden circles? it's kind of bizarre-looking.

star, thanks for jumping in. I started a thread of night shots, too...in case, i dunno, you wanted to throw some up there, too.

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Starkizzer

I didn't know if these shots would really fit into the night vision one since they are not night shots but indoor shots. They are from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland decorated for Nightmare Before Christmas. I figured abstract was more appropriate.

I really wish I could get a better picture of the snow angels, they are the thing I look forward to most when the ride gets converted. But the ride never stops. We keep hoping it will break down some time while we are at this point.

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snowy

It's ripples in a mud puddle.

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rmarshall

It's moss or something growing on a statue in the cemetery.
I think the trick is to track the moving object with your camera letting the background blur but keeping the object sharp.
But, having said that, I didn't do it in my parade pics. But the electric light parade was moving slowly.

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Starkizzer

Problem is, the angels are stationary, but the car we are in for the ride never stops moving. I think I managed to capture this one when the ride slowed momentarily. These were also taken with my point and shoot. Maybe we could get them better with smrt's big fancy camera.

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ring

rmarshall

Are you making jam?

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ring

^ Azuki beans! Tasty good.

Lichens on wet tree bark ↓

mixedmedia

two shots taken this weekend in St. Augustine.

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mixedmedia

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PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

ring

mixedmedia

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

mixedmedia

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce