What is that Abstract?

In an effort to work on sun flare I was laying on the ground with the camera taking a picture up while my daughter layed on the swing on her belly! It was fun for us to laugh at each other. Anyway this is her wind swept hair and the sun. It turned out more washed out than flare but It makes to me an interesting abstract piece.

CYC: Abstract basket

I have a hard time with this word, because whenever I think of "abstract" I think that you're not supposed to be able to tell what it is you're looking at. However, I took this photo with the word "abstract" in mind. It's an old-fashioned (probably hand-woven) basket hanging from the ceiling in the Newel K. Whitney store in Kirtland, OH.

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ABSTRACT animal

This is a picture of one of the Cleveland Zoo's elephants who is currently being a guest at the Columbus Zoo as the Cleveland Zoo's elephant exhibit is being overhauled for a couple of years. I've visited this elephant so many times in my life -- I'm old, but he's OLDER!!! Elephants have always been my favorite at the zoo. I love the way their skin looks...so dry, but cool shapes and lines. They have so much character to their bodies. Funny how shapes and lines are character on their bodies and just plain old ugly wrinkles on us humans.

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Nikon D80, 120 mm, 100 ISO, F/5.6, 1/50 shutter

Ok, seriously, I had NO IDEA what abstract meant...I actually had to google the word and look at your previous submissions to see what you did...so, this is my take on it. Still not sure it is what "abstract" means, but this is the trunk of one of our Queen Palm trees in our yard. I thought it was kind of cool.

PLEASE CC, I really struggled with this one!

If you're interested, here are the other shots I didn't choose.

The Mundane Pin

This is my take on ABSTRACT, using my clothesline for inspiration. I was surprised how it turned out. I make it b/w to emphasize the lines.

The spiderwebs are an interesting hi-light, don't you think?

And the winners are.....

Sorry to get the winners posted so late. We have had a busy day.

That was an especially tough voting! Tallying was hard because it was VERY close!

The best take on the challenge went to Leanne with her jellybean picture (which was totally cool!) (if I counted right--correct me if I am wrong!)

The best overall was a tie between Lindy and Leanne, but since Leanne took the BEST take award, Lindy gets the Best overall picture for her awesome display of rust. :)

GREAT JOB everyone!

Let the voting begin!

Okay! WOW! Amazed, yet again. A WONDERFUL round of pictures! I am truly impressed--thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for really pushing yourselves with this. I feel so inspired!

So, as tough as this will be, let the voting begin!

Be sure to just put in your comment:
BEST TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE:____________
BEST OVERALL PICTURE:_______________

And then you can add any additional comments of shoutouts. :)

Again, I can't thank all of you ENOUGH for sharing your beautiful art so freely. I am in awe at how much everyone is improving, and how quickly!

VOTING CLOSES TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT. Winners announced tomorrow morning. :)

Happy FRIDAY.

redo Abstract.

O.K. everyone here it is bigger. the editing program I had would not make it bigger because I only had the trail version. here is is with nothing except how it was straight from the camera.

Abstract View

This was a fun assignment. I took a lot of pictures, but had a hard time deciding on which one to use. I liked the composition of this photo, and the colors, so I went with it. I thought about maybe cropping it down a little more...but then I kept losing that upper left hand side, and I LOVE the composition how it is on that side...What do you think?

Took it with ISO 100
350 with F 8
Canon Rebel XTI
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On Angel's Wings

I took a close up of the wings on my willow tree figurine. I used my hubby's new Canon 50D. It was really fun to play with! But I need more practice...

Abstract Circles

So I knew what abstract was, but wanted to read on it some more to get a different idea than what I had. I went to digital-photography-school.com and searched abstract. I found a pretty cool article with tons of pointers. I'll have to look it up again if any of you might want it.
This is what I came up with, Abstract Circles


Taken in shutter priority mode with a shutter speed of 1/2.5, iso:200, F36. This shot is also SOOTC. Can any of you guess what this picture is of?
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Abstract Twilight Dessert

Don't laugh! This is kinda cheesy.

I am having a Twilight party at my house tonight to celebrate the movie release on DVD. (That's not the part that might make you laugh) For dessert I am serving, "Bella Bites"- he he.

They are an "ABSTRACT" representation of the film. The pure white represents Bella, young and innocent. The darker Chocolate is the dark side of Edward. And the Blood Red Center (red velvet cake)... what do you think?

Pretty abstract right? I know it's a bit of a stretch but I've been wanting to try these and I thought my party would be the perfect chance-I just needed to figure out how to tie them in. See, Cheesy right? I told ya so!

FOUNTAIN

I have to thank Mindy again for suggesting this challenge. I had so much fun with it! It was so hard to choose what to take pictures of--but I decided on a drinking fountain at our church when I was there last night for a meeting.

I realized after the fact I had my ISO a little high, which was a bummer. But as I took it, it went:

ISO 900, F 5.6, 1/30 sec

A Big Pile

Well, I was really challenged by the word ABSTRACT. So, I just put the camera in the car and started driving around, when I happened upon a pile of wood. I almost drove right past it, but at the last second, I swerved off the road, parked on the shoulder and jumped out. Thank goodness noone else was around and no other cars happened by.

This is about as abstract as I get. Hope it's acceptable.

I took this with my wide angle lens. f/6.3, 1/100, ISO 100. In ps, I sharpened and saturated the colors.

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Taking an abstract picture was a a definite challenge for me. But I appreciated that because it made me see everything in my apartment a little differently. And in the end, I think I got some pretty cool angles on some pretty ordinary things. =)



(Taken with a Nikon D-40, automatic setting, slightly cropped.) CC welcome.

Ok, so this next one isn't my official entry, but I loved this picture so much that I couldn't help but share it!

Something Fun to make Abstract

I tried getting shots of everything that I thought would make a good abstract, but for some reason my macro wouldn't focus. I wonder if it is the lighting? I don't know.

This one turned out pretty fun, so I thought I'd roll with it.
Any guesses as to what it is?

Abstract: Literally

I wanted to do something a little nerdier for this challenge, and I knew that I could. My husband is a statistician. This is a photo of a derivation he did for a homework assignment in grad school. Initially, I wanted to post it and say, "this is a picture of...literally...an abstract." But he said it's not actually an abstract. It's a derivation. Well, a proof, he clarified. But it uses mathematical abstraction to provide a mathematical relationship between ordinal categorical variables.

Whatever that means.

About the photo: it is completely unedited. I did nothing to it except load it from the camera to the computer. I tried a couple of things, but it just looked best in its original form.

Water Everywhere

It's a dark, overcast, rainy day here today so I knew I had to incorporate rain in our challenge! My "real" camera is in the shop so I did the best I could with my point and shoot. I just wish I'd gotten something better to go with abstract.

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Abstract: Carly Carlson

Not really sure how abstract this is... but there ya go. :) Sorry I haven't been as active of a participant lately- things are insane here and I just have bitten off way more than I can chew right now! :) I'll try harder! :)

Abstract Flowers

I had a fun time deciding what subject to use for this challenge. I started taking close-ups of the carved details of my Turkish jewelry box. But I couldn't really come up with a shot I really liked. So I moved on to close-ups of a box of cracked wheat with a measuring cup. I got some interesting shots, but there was no color! I've been doing bland shots lately so that didn't really work for me.

Then later while I was working on something completely different, I happened to look over at the dining room. Jeff had put our centerpiece on top of the cabinet so the kids wouldn't get to it, and the way it was sitting made it look like the flowers were opening up to face the light of the ceiling fan. I loved the way it looked and immediately stopped what I was doing, climbed up on a chair, and started snapping away!

ISO 50, camera set to overexpose by +0.3 so the flowers wouldn't be drowned out by the light. I'm particularly proud of the fact that I didn't enhance it on the computer at all - this is exactly as I took it on the camera.

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