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My world of optical-materialism macropaintographs. Innovating the technique, ongoing experiments with the technique, making the physical constructs, photographing them, posting them on Flickr, printing some to canvas and framing them, exhibiting them when lucky enough to get the chance. Somebody's got to do it..... :-) jAm

[Lakon Ibrahimovic is my other, newer account >> www.flickr.com/people/190130593@N06/ ]

other places:

www.facebook.com/jiha.abraham - facebook

jam1306a.wixsite.com/jamelikat-jam is my art website work-in-progress (very much so ! )

Thank you for viewing and your feedback.

My abstracts are NOT digital paintings and they are NOT photographs of paint on canvas. They are macro, close-up photographs of small constructs created using household materials to give line, shape, texture, shade and colour. Without the camera, I don't have the end-products (the images I upload here to Flickr), nor will i have the intended FINAL final products, the photographs printed to canvas.

We've seen a rainbow before, a sunrise and a sunset before, and some are lucky enough to see the Northern Lights. Yet we want to see it again and again.

An image I would like to see again and again is the continuing aim of my abstracts. Some work better than others. My abstract stuff is made possible only through macro photography and the low cost of digital photography. I don't use paints or digital painting apps. I use household materials to make small constructs with texture, line, shape, colour, shade. This I view through the camera and shoot. It has been a humble privilege to be able to continually experiment and be able to display the results here on Flickr. I owe Flickr members and friends a whole heap of gratitude for their continuing encouragement and feedback going all the way back to 2008 when I joined. Without it, I probably would not have ever exhibited my works. Mainly small, solo exhibitions, 4 so far through 2018-2019. Happy to say I have sold about 40 one-metre wide/high framed canvas prints so far through the exhibitions.

I mainly use or have used Pentax digital SLRs K-50, *ist DS, *ist DL2, 16 Mpixel, 6 Mpixel, 6 Mpixel respectively. The most common lenses I use for abstract macros are a a few old lenses bought in charity shops - Carl Zeiss Jenna 50mm/2.0 and Supermulticoated Takumar 50mm/1.4 or 1.8.

Keep thinking, keep experimenting, keep shooting.

jamal, oxford, United Kingdom. Dec 2019

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INTITIAL profile on joining Flickr about 10 years ago in 2010. (Joined FLICKR in 2008)

My non-abstract stuff will speak for themselves.

My abstract stuff is all macro or at least, the closest i can focus with a 50mm prime on a DSLR.

EQUIPMENT

About 1 % of my shots are taken with the Sony Mavica CD400 or CD500 write-to-CD cameras. 99% [+, ++ see below for updates on equipment] (or more!) of my photos on Flickr are taken with the 1.2 Megapixel camera part of an mp3 player-camera, the now discontinued 20Gb hard disk Olympus m:robe mr500i mp3 player. I experiment with the camera part. You can read of my crude and wacky experiments with it on mrobe.org, a forum that I help moderate. I do macro (very poor man's), motion distort and motion-blur apart from other things. I intend to also learn about and experiment with 'bokeh'. Photography history...started off on film with Pentax Spotmatic M42 screwmount cameras, adding to this the Olympus Pen FT half-frame camera. Went digital with the Sony Mavica CD400 and 500 record-on-CD cameras (4 and 5 Megapixels respectively). And now the 1.2 Megapixel mp3 player-camera from Olympus which I find to be the biggest challenge and most fun. EDIT jan 2010: also started using a sony mavica FD200 a lot, mainly for abstract macros.

+EDIT Starting end of 2008, new camera added....the pentax ist DS 6Mpixel DSLR, over 99% of shots on this being with vintage M42 screwmount lenses (pentax takumar, carl zeiss, raynox, optomax, tamron, derek gardner etc)

++EDIT At some point in 2008/2009, started using another old-ish camera, an early digital, the sony mavica FD200 2Mpixel camera. Usually for 'DIY fisheye' or macro abstracts.

+++ +EDIT Starting end of 2017, new camera added....the pentax K-50 16Mpixel DSLR, most of shots on this, via extension tube/s being with vintage M42 screwmount lens carl zeiss tessar 50mm/2.8, some with Supermulticoated Takumar 50mm/1.8 or 1.4