Abstracts - Line & Color

Wait, that isn't ambivalence, that's equivalence;-)

Hmmmm. You both have a point. It's Rye grass, better than 'whole grain', so maybe with a little yogurt we could market it as a healthy breakfast cereal.

This is what happens when people comment before breakfast;-)

Glad you enjoyed them tzia.

Good morning to you Anna:-)

Thanks for visiting ombra. It was an experiment.

That's a good way to put it ombra. I briefly worked under the vague 'supervision' of an instructor whose personal style of photography was radically different than mine. Yet he was completely opposed to my experimenting outside of my primary background.

I still believe that viewpoint was ludicrous and narrowminded. People experiment out of natural curiosity, and you never know when, or how, what you learn from those experiments may be useful, or what it may lead to. You have to be open to failure, to learn.

My background and approach is 'news' or 'documentary'. Years ago [film days] I taught introductory photography classes at an 'Art Center' and community college. Until then I had never run across painters who proudly proclaimed 'photography is not art'; and photographers who insisted photos done in the style of Ansel Adams were the only 'Art' in all of photography's styles and approaches.

I laughed. I also tried to teach that each medium and style should be respected, even if you don't personally appreciate or understand it. First off it's all a smorgasbord, and there is nothing wrong with sampling until [if ever] you choose one area of concentration. Second, I don't believe there is a comprehensively fair definition of what qualifies as 'Art'.

...considered most manipulation to be digital art instead.

It's all open to debate nowdays. Ansel Adams, the 'god' to some purists, manipulated the hell out of his images; from the exposure of the film, through processing and finally printing techniques.

Most of photography lends itself to manipulation, both digital and film. The dividing line imo, is really whether the photographer is trying to 'accurately represent' the subject,[ and/or content], or 'interpret' it. Interpretation by its nature is just an opinion. I say that with a disclaimer that I'm not an art critic or historian; just a lowly photographer who's been in the trenches, instead of looking down from above:-)

Hi M, good to see you. It's a departure from the norm for me, I'm primarily 'narrative' oriented. But it was a refreshing experiment too. I look forward to seeing what you come up with too.

Well, now you've perked my curiosity right up. 'Inquiring minds' and all that you know:-)

... If there's a Way to freeze a program, uninstall it and still freeze it up, I'm your gal...

Oh, I don't need any help, I'm well skilled in distruction:-)

I was serious, I will be looking forward to seeing what you come up with through edit-experiments.

There must be a thousand ways to freeze or hang a program, and I'm sorry I can't be of any real help. I can suggest first checking to see how much space is left on your hard drive. I've hung PSE in the past, just from trying to download a large set RAW-file photos when HD space was getting tight. It's behavior mimicked a virus slowdown, and then just hung, glaring at me without budging.

Did I mention I'm a procrastinator of long standing?

I'll race you for the title. Later though.

What size are the photos you've tried to upload? Too large or the wrong file type,[make sure you use jpeg], and they just won't get there. I've found keeping them around 1MB [plus or minus] works pretty well.

I have to run, be back later.

Thank you. I'm glad you visited and found something to enjoy Minnie.

Though I'm not actually tzia ;-)

heh;-)

Thanks for the visit and compliment RAY FRIEDMAN.

You clearly have the better eye for this. Perhaps because you're able to see something of the finished image in your mind at the time that you shoot. No kidding, and no fake humility:-)

far out man. like, wow. just, wow.

;-P