By playing with colors and realigning layers, I created this ice abstract using one of my frozen flower photos.
So much fun!
Ice Abstract
Imaginarius 3
And here is the last imaginarius image for now. It was suggested that these would be good backgrounds/textures to combine with other images. I love the minimalism of these images on their own, but have worked a few into other images. Stay tuned!
Imaginarius 2
Just another intentional camera movement image taken through my glass apple last weekend. . .
Imaginarius
I watched a video tutorial on intentional camera movement the other day, and, inspired by a photo friend who did a whole series of ICM images in her bedroom while ill, I created a series while watching the video. I used a glass apple from my teaching days and focused into the glass, swirling my camera around, picking up other colors. I am calling my series Imaginarius, because of the imaginary landscapes and abstracts created by this process. I will post more in the next week or so.
Envy and Geometrics
When visiting the Phoenix Art Museum in November, I was captivated by the view into a special gallery below us. It brought me back to the envy I felt when visiting the home of my parents’ friends when I was a little girl. Their two daughters shared a huge bedroom with a giant roofless dollhouse on the floor, laid out like a 3 dimensional floor plan. You could move the dolls (larger than typical dollhouse dolls- more like Ginny or small Madame Alexander dolls) throughout the house, guiding them through doorways and onto beds and chairs. The girls’ dad had made the doll house, and oh, how I wanted one like it! But where would I have put it? That question never came to my mind. So alas- my Ginny and Madame Alexander dolls never had a house, except in my imagination.
Below is a view of the gallery in color and in landscape orientation. In both views, I was drawn to the geometry of the setup- and I attempted to emphasize that in my editing process. I brought both images to my Monday photo group for critique and stated my preference for the black and white. I was guided by several friends to remove some “color blocks” I had added for emphasis, and that has made all the difference in the color version. I so appreciate the positive and helpful critiques from my photo friends- especially Gail this time!
Water + Art + Light
Scottsdale’s annual Canal Convergence event along the downtown waterfront provided so many opportunities for interesting street photography mixed with light and art- and of course, water. What are you looking at here? I’ll leave it up to your imagination!
Yet another bird image…
Here is another image in my Bird by Bird series- as yet untitled. I’ve had a lot of fun with this series!
This particular image, which started out as a multiple exposure has gone through several iterations. Once this color combination emerged, I knew I was on the right track for what I wanted to create. But I have another version too- I always am attracted to the simplicity of a square crop.
Raven Black
This image is part of a series of abstracts I’ve been working on that feature birds. The blog post title is from one of the Shetland mystery series by Ann Cleeves that I love- I haven’t come up with a title for this image as yet. Ideas?
Update: The image is now called Treasure Hunter! I had to come up with a title FAST for my AAUW photography group, and I think it works. . .
Geometry Blues
I have fallen in love with creating abstracts! I have always been attracted to shapes and strong lines when I am out shooting with my camera, and this is a composite of several images with circles and rectangles. The layering started on my iPhone and then was continued in Photoshop. Fun to create- and a bit addictive!
Wagon Wheels
I had an idea for a series- which I still have not developed. Here is a start- but way different from where I would like this series to go. These were taken in Bodie- looking into the wagonmaker’s workshop. My 3rd great grandfather, Augustus Peaslee, was a wagonmaker, and I am always drawn to photograph wagon wheels wherever I happen to see them. I am imagining a series of wagon wheel abstracts with a whole different color palette than this one- but it’s a beginning….
Memories of Tumacacori 2
Second in the series of abstracts from our visit to Tumacacori Mission.
Memories of Tumacacori
Above is part of my venture into abstract photography- multiple exposures and often layering the resulting images in Photoshop to create an impression of place, feeling or memory. The Tumacacori Mission in southern Arizona is one of my favorite places we have visited since living here. The old buildings, the history of the O’odham people who still live in the area, the cemetery with its rocks and simple crosses all make a strong impact on visitors. It is my fourth grade history lessons brought to life! Beyond that is the deeper understanding of colonialism and its impact everywhere.
I took many photos while there- despite the incredible HEAT- and have created a small series of abstracts which I will continue posting here.
Ribbon Moon
Just doodling in photoshop with water reflections…
Tumacacori Abstracts
This image started as a multiple exposure- and then went from there…
Two alternate crops:
I can’t decide which I like best!
Forest Lights
We have just returned from Alaska, where we had a delightful visit with our daughter’s family. Our grandsons are growing up- almost 13 and almost 16! Photography was not a focus of this trip, but I did manage to get some photos of the boys and some multiple exposure abstracts while we stayed at their lakeside cabin.
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