Love that pic, Godfrey. For some reason, it reminded me of a shot by Sam Haskins in one of the Pentax Photo Annuals many years ago. I'll see if I can find a reference...
Jostein 2008/2/28, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is much nicer. > > It's not a photograph "about" anything, or "of" anything. It is a > photograph which expresses motion, light, color and form. What most > people seem to have a hard time understanding when they look at so- > called "abstracts" is to disengage their thinking from objective > "what is it?" inspection and enjoy the interplay of simple visual > elements. > > I don't call this kind of work abstract except in the most primitive > sense ... it is a photograph of something which is difficult to > articulate in objective "what is it" terms. You look at this kind of > photograph for the simpler properties of light and form, decide > whether it is pleasing to the eye without such objective denotation. > > I did an abstract in this vein recently which I just rendered out for > posting... > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/15-light_n_form.jpg > > It is certainly a photograph of something, and there was no > photoshopping involved other than the rendering to monochrome and > cropping to square, but that's not the point. ;-) > > Godfrey > > On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:32 AM, AlunFoto wrote: > > > Abstracts can be great when there's a concious purpose behind the > > abstraction. This one only served the purpose of entertaining a > > photographer wielding a new toy. Hence the silliness... :-) > > > > Here's a 1024x700 version: > > http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/20080227-0073.jpg > > > > Jostein > > > > 2008/2/28, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Only issue to me is that this photo needs to be rendered a lot larger > >> to see it properly. > >> > >> What's so silly about an abstract? ;-) > >> > >> G > >> > >> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:45 AM, AlunFoto wrote: > >> > >>> Just a silly abstract, maybe, but I really like this one myself. > >>> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/2008/02/water-filaments.html > >>> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
