Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Abstracts
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Abstracts
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso


It’s not what you look at what matters. It’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau


Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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Some of these are in parks, some in the front of large buildings, others are almost dumped unceremoniously in a corner of a free space between two roads. None are really the center of attention. All are non-representational.
I had a lot of fun with the latest Cosmic prompt: abstract.
I’ll start off with a shot that was abstract from the start. Without any editing this is how it was recorded on my memory card in the camera:

Move on to a subject that is intentionally abstract like this sculpture of which I could not find any title or the name of the artist or anything, even after researching it on the internet:



And finally a perfectly ordinary close up of a flower rendered abstract by various filters in an editing program:








Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Abstract.