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.
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 :abstrusec: 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 :theoreticalb:impersonal, detachedTime> 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)
The wire that connects my camera to my computer is...
in the camera case
which is in the car
which is miles away
and will not be here till 6:30 p.m. or so...
Y'all (and I) have to wait. Meanwhile my camera is RIGHT HERE, filled with images I'm DYING to take a look at (on Mac) and I CANNOT.
arf.
Soon!
In the meantime, here's a few to add color on a gray day. Remember farmer's markets in August (no. hemisphere folks)?
