pushed round

For round 8 of 'Get Pushed' the wonderfully creative Nancy Goodenough challenged me with

 

"...the concept of "Cycle" and decide if you want to go literal or conceptual. Could be bicycle, motorcycle or 'cycle of life.' You've also done many styles and techniques. Do your cycle in the postprocessing method of your choice, but consider something you haven't tried before and would like to stretch to. Of course, an obscure or idiosyncratic point of view gets extra points."

 

Not only did I enjoy the pleasure of her inspiring and colourful stream, but a really fun push to explore. I knew just where to find the logical subject for this challenge, and was quickly drawn into the "periodically repeated sequence of events" better know as Photoshop layers. To incorporate something new however, I turned to Filter > Distort > Spherical - an effect that seemed to lend itself to the sense of motion that a wheel denotes, and an obscura effect that felt perfectly suited to this vintage find.

 

And while it's not the most obscure or conceptual of subjects, I've obscured the view beyond the sphere with a few layers of quick burn. As for idiosyncratic - the perspective may not qualify but finding the definition of "behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group", I'd say signing up for repeated rounds of Get Pushed probably qualifies the whole lot of us at this point.

 

And with this much processing, how could I not post it along with a HSS.

 

Thanks Nancy, for the push into some seriously fun wheeling around!

 

Done