This week, turn the concrete and familiar into something new and mysterious.
By The best thing about being nearsighted? It’s sometimes enough for me to take off my glasses and squint to see the world as a hazy canvas — one on which an abstract expressionist painter threw wild splotches of color. My brain gives me a break for a moment, not forcing me to see specific objects and people but rather shapes, compositions, and textures.
Sometimes I like going for the same effect with my phone’s camera — snapping a picture either so close or so far from an object that it stops being what I’d normally see it as.
I was recently struck by the gorgeous composition I saw on the trunk of a chestnut tree near my house, from the crevices in the bark to the changing density of lichen (I think it’s lichen — botanists, forgive me!). I drew closer, and for all ends and purposes this was no longer a tree.
This week, find your own (proverbial?) chestnut tree. Point your camera at something familiar and turn it into something else. Whether it’s a wall in your house, a friend’s arm, or a billboard seen from afar, we may or may not recognize what it actually is. But we’ll certainly discover something else about it in the process.
I look forward to seeing your take on abstract photography!
you’re very early, Ben. But, a great idea: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/wpc-abstract/
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Getting ready! This time abstract interior design! 😉
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Hope you enjoy it! House is for sale for only 7.8 million dollars 😉
https://byniki.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/the-reading-room/
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Oh I do enjoy abstract!
The sun is shining here in Ireland… yes, it seems spring has arrived, at last! I’ve just come in from outside (to find your challenge) where I’m trying to use flexible bamboo to splodge paint (primary colours) on a set of canvasses… a new abstract is born? Looks rather messy at this stage.
PS – I think it’s lichens and moss.. my guess! Great photo, whatever it may be! 😉
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Hey I cannot believe this…
http://wp.me/p1j16x-1q6
Enjoy thanks ..
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Here is my entry: https://gwhphotos.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/wpc-abstract/
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Here is my entry for this week. Good topic.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/22/daily-post-weekly-photo-challenge-abstract/
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Celebrating Earth Day abstracts – and the whole of Earth – in my post today. Thanks for a great challenge! https://scillagrace.com/2016/04/22/weekly-photo-challenge-abstract-earth-day/
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Wow, faked us out with an early posting time! Off to see what I have. Happy Friday.
janet
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Nice challenge. Here is my go: http://wp.me/p3gqMf-oC
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Thanks for your inspiration, Ben. I felt compelled to participate in today’s post! https://cchellis.wordpress.com
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Perhaps this is more metaphysical than abstract:
https://insellos.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/weekly-photo-challenge-abstract/
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The endless possibilities!
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https://mostlymonochrome.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/fireworks/
Some abstract lights.
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A brilliant challenge: I just love doing this. https://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/abstracts-wpc/
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Long live the fuzzy haze of near-sightedness! Great theme this week, Ben.
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Great theme for this week.. I will have plenty of abstracts then.. Swav @ Paintings by Swav
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1st one: http://wp.me/p4mUeK-3T
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2nd one: http://wp.me/p4mUeK-D
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This is my first ping back..Did I do it right? https://theslightlyoffsetpapermaven.wordpress.com/
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Made especially for you https://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/wpc-abstract/
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Have a lovely weekend!
https://graphicrealestate.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/abstract/
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Nice one this week, Ben. Good to get creative – drawing inspiration from nature http://wp.me/p1wyZM-1ap
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Gorgeous and mysterious in close-up, Ben. I like the hues of grey and green.
My take on Abstract: https://drieskewrites.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/photo-challenge-abstract/
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Looking through glass – http://wp.me/p3CFsE-2M4
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Chihuly?
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Yes it was! It was part of an exhibition at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum a couple of years ago.
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Thanks for another great challenge. Here is my response: https://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/love-at-second-sight/
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http://wp.me/p1hCI2-64l
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Mine: https://stenoodie.com/2016/04/22/weekly-photo-challenge-abstract/ 🙂
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Hope you enjoy it! House is for sale for only 7.8 million dollars 😉
Abstract interiors!
https://byniki.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/the-reading-room/
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Fun challenge!
https://thirdeyemom.com/2016/04/22/an-abstract-take-on-the-perched-village-of-bonnieux/
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It might be difficult to figure out at first, but it was part of a wall of fading posts taken on the streets of Quito, Ecuador. Art or trash? It’s for the beholder to decide.
http://wp.me/p6FwZ-2jN
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ha, ha, I had to smile at taking -off -glasses notion (being short sighted myself).
you can get similar result if you don’t set your camera right (as I did – not on purpose though): http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2016/04/abstract.html
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Great photo Ben, it is like a landscape! Here is my entry http://wp.me/paGem-4V1
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