silent Saturday

Heavenly Mumday: STUNNING images from Hubble (swoon!)

 

Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org


Source: Hubblesite.org

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snowy curves + bonus: Mumday interpreted

 

Just 2 of the delightful snowy shapes we spied yesterday whilst snowshoeing up at Badger Pass, Yosemite. YUM.

A few more...

Did I ever mention that I'm a minimalist?

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illin' so make-up-photo to distract from lack of creative post

            
Turned out I was exhausted ALL day yesterday, and super thirsty, 'cause a cold was brewing. Today is drippy (raining), as am I (on more than one level), so here's a pic to stand in as today's post (and another abstract-ish for my blog visitor):

You can probably guess what this is, but probably not where it's from. Maybe next post I'll show you more of the same for a tiny bit of context.

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abstract photographs... Que?

                
In going through my pics, to assemble a few more abstracts to fulfill a blog visitor's request, I'm pondering what an abstract photograph is.

As a minimalist, things that are spare make me happy, and some feel to me that they're abstract, when in fact, they may not be. What I suspect is more truly abstract, is when the focus is the form of the thing, or color, versus the whole of what that thing actually is.

Some of my favorite nature pictures are those where you really cannot tell what you are looking at, initially, and especially if you cannot tell the scale. LOVE that.

Mind you, I've had basically NO liberal arts education, so, off to Merriam-Webster.com for a second opinion:

Main Entry: ¹ab·stract  

Pronunciation: \ab-ˈstrakt, ˈab-ˌ\

Function: adjective

Etymology: Medieval Latin abstractus, from Latin, past participle of abstrahere to drag away, from abs-, ab- +trahere to pull, draw

Date: 14th century

1 a : disassociated from any specific instance  b : difficult to understand : abstruse  c : insufficiently factual : formal 
2 : expressing a quality apart from an object poem is concrete, poetry is abstract>
3 a : dealing with a subject in its abstract aspects : theoretical  b : impersonal, detached Time>
4 : having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content 

What to you comprises an abstract photographic image? What is required to fulfill that definition? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

(meanwhile I'll keep sorting through pics to post)

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