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52 Photo Challenge: Week 23-Abstract

“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken-and what could be more frail than that?” —Neil Gaiman

This week my assignment for the 52 photo challenge was to play with the idea of abstract photography. It was defined for me as photos that look unrealistic or unrecognizable. The goal is for the photos to look more like paintings or artwork than a photograph.

My photos this week are from two different locations. The top image and the first seven photos are from William Land Park, including the Sacramento Zoo. The final three images are from a Melanie Martinez concert I attended with my daughter last Wednesday. I edited these photos using the same presets to give the set a cohesive feel. Let me know if you have a favorite.

Thanks, as always, for your support. Life continues to be busy and I’m falling further and further behind in all things, but I remain hopeful and optimistic.

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  • Photos were taken with an Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW
  • If you want to join the 52 Photo Challenge, you can find all the information at nicolesy.com

52 Photo Challenge
Week 1: Bokeh
Week 2: Silhouette
Week 3: Black and White
Week 4: Motion Blur
Week 5: Texture
Week 6: Framing
Week 7: Leading Lines
Week 8: Negative Space
Week 9: Patterns
Week 10: Symmetry
Week 11: Green
Week 12: Sidelight
Week 13: Sense of Scale
Week 14: One Lens
Week 15: Series
Week 16: Flat Lay
Week 17: Behind the Scenes
Week 18: Water
Week 19: Blurry Foreground
Week 20: Unique Perspective
Week 21: Shadow
Week 22: Food

29 thoughts on “52 Photo Challenge: Week 23-Abstract”

    • Thank you. I am doing well, but time isn’t my friend these days! Working on catching up the next few days. Be prepared for a lot of comments from me later today 🙂

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  2. This may be my favourite series yet, Bridgette! Number 1 is my absolute favourite. Not sure what it is? I would have that one on my wall in a huge format! But numbers 6 (the animal enclosure), 7 (wild cat paws) and 10 (confetti?) really spoke to me as well. You are very talented. I love getting to choose your photos each week 🙂🙂🙂💕

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    • Thanks! They are certainly different photos than I usually take, but I rather like them. The last three were taken with my iPhone and I think the grainer imagery works well for abstract.

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      • When I process my photos, I use Aurora HDR (high dynamic range) which leaves the images very grainy. There is a function in the software called Denoise that cleans up the grainy look nicely and smoothes the image out.

      • I’ll have to try that. I have a denoise function on the software I use, but I haven’t really played around with it much. Thanks for the push to give it a go next time.

  8. Glad you got the chance to relax and decompress. Some lovely snapshots of the wildlife and neon nightlife! 🙂 Especially liked the leaf dewdrops and the paws snapshots – great work <3

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    • Those last photos are from the Melanie Martinez concert and that’s confetti (not foam) and her in #8. She’s currently dressing as a pink character with four eyes and large ears. It’s pretty wild, but I’m in love with the concept of this albumn.

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