Since when are footprints in the snow higher than the surrounding snow? There’s a flip going on. Reality has been inverted. And yet it’s a completely straight photograph. The situation itself is an abstraction.
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Since when are footprints in the snow higher than the surrounding snow? There’s a flip going on. Reality has been inverted. And yet it’s a completely straight photograph. The situation itself is an abstraction.
Simplify..
The book “The Practice of Contemplative Photography” is on my bedside table, along with Rumi and Calvin & Hobbes. A strange combination, I thought.
This is quite fascinating to explore. I’m guessing that the tonal inversion suggests that most horses are the opposite of wild? Or for a horse to dream about being free or wild must be the opposite of what they are.
Take a photo?
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I have 6 more Calvin & Hobbes books but only one Rumi.
Beautiful!I can honestly say that I have loved everyone’s interpretation of “Abstract”. They are all beautiful and I would happily exhibit them all in my art gallery, if I had one. But the one image that I would hang on my own wall is FundyBrian Brian’s Simplify.
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Now I’m no expert in what constitutes an abstract, but I know what I like and it’s this one. Everything paired down, with just the right amount of detail remaining makes this such a tranquil image. The composition is fabulous, and don’t get me started on the colours! The fact that this is a real place and not an artist’s figment makes it even better. And I too have enjoyed Brian’s processes, both thought and deed, in this challenge. I feel like we’ve been on a journey. Thank you Brian.
Wow! I never expected this at all. Thank you Jilly! I have been enjoying APPstract and all the new things I’m learning along the way.I can honestly say that I have loved everyone’s interpretation of “Abstract”. They are all beautiful and I would happily exhibit them all in my art gallery, if I had one. But the one image that I would hang on my own wall is FundyBrian Brian’s Simplify.
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Now I’m no expert in what constitutes an abstract, but I know what I like and it’s this one. Everything paired down, with just the right amount of detail remaining makes this such a tranquil image. The composition is fabulous, and don’t get me started on the colours! The fact that this is a real place and not an artist’s figment makes it even better. And I too have enjoyed Brian’s processes, both thought and deed, in this challenge. I feel like we’ve been on a journey. Thank you Brian.
Well done, Brian. Most deserved!I can honestly say that I have loved everyone’s interpretation of “Abstract”. They are all beautiful and I would happily exhibit them all in my art gallery, if I had one. But the one image that I would hang on my own wall is FundyBrian Brian’s Simplify.
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Now I’m no expert in what constitutes an abstract, but I know what I like and it’s this one. Everything paired down, with just the right amount of detail remaining makes this such a tranquil image. The composition is fabulous, and don’t get me started on the colours! The fact that this is a real place and not an artist’s figment makes it even better. And I too have enjoyed Brian’s processes, both thought and deed, in this challenge. I feel like we’ve been on a journey. Thank you Brian.
Perfect description.Wow. For me, those little figures make the image into a complex futuristic city, or a sideways rendition of Dante’s Circles of Hell.
That sounds a-mazing.I was at a retreat centre one time a few years ago and awoke in the morning to the sound on someone playing a Native American flute on the other side of the next sleeping building, so the sound was echoing back from the valley wall. It was hauntingly beautiful, without a single synthesizer.
So beautiful.
I used to have several Calvin & Hobbes books too! They didn’t make the cut with this last move though... I figured I could always find them online.View attachment 122690
I have 6 more Calvin & Hobbes books but only one Rumi.
Agree!I particularly appreciate @FundyBrian ’s willingness to share his explorations, puzzlements and delights as he investigates this new-for-him area
In fact, Brian, I think your posts could usefully be extracted and compiled as part of a ‘beginner’s blog’
Bravo FundyBrian Brian!! I’ve been loving your explorations too.I can honestly say that I have loved everyone’s interpretation of “Abstract”. They are all beautiful and I would happily exhibit them all in my art gallery, if I had one. But the one image that I would hang on my own wall is FundyBrian Brian’s Simplify.
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Now I’m no expert in what constitutes an abstract, but I know what I like and it’s this one. Everything paired down, with just the right amount of detail remaining makes this such a tranquil image. The composition is fabulous, and don’t get me started on the colours! The fact that this is a real place and not an artist’s figment makes it even better. And I too have enjoyed Brian’s processes, both thought and deed, in this challenge. I feel like we’ve been on a journey. Thank you Brian.