Hi my friends.....I have been overwhelmed lately and not able to get to Flickr. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Hopefully things will slow down a bit and I can spend some time going through your sites. I've missed seeing all those amazing photos and keeping up with changes in your lives. Take care, enjoy the rest of the season.

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Tantalised by the flickr challenge with geometric photos. I thought I'd have a go. One thing led to another and soon I was playing with shapes and sunlight. Even with poor health I think it important occasionally to let creativity take precedent over expedience and of course I overdid it. Just now I feel perhaps a little similar to s/he with a hangover who is saying, 'I will never drink so much again.'

Thank you so much for sharing your quality photos which is a great way to see and keep some sort of touch with the world from home. Also for your kind comments and favours which are much valued.

I am not able to take on any more members to follow or to post to groups.

Hotel. Scottsdale, AZ

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Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

In the city of our God,

In His holy mountain.

Psalm 48:1

Apps used: Apple on-board camera, Decim8, Snapseed, Glaze, Over, Superimpose

This piece is from a set of recent geometric abstract images. Giving credit where it is due, I was greatly influenced by the remarkably rhythmic black and white Rotring work of Carrie Meijer.

I set out from a blank white panel to create a deliberately noisy piece, full of urban busyness and movement that reflects the anonymous character of public space. I echoed the formalistic complexity in Carrie’s work with my own structural layering and color methods.

My upper grid is built from multiple layers of letters and characters from the “Pixel” block font found in the Over app. Through a series of masking steps I trimmed and shaped the letters into a kind of skeletal scatter pattern, then selectively applied a number of thin irregular white line masks over the composition. The randomly placed color blocks added a sense of organic humanity interacting with the space.

The lower grid is made from a photo of my house apped through Decim8, and a black block with random bits of color run through Glaze. Both grids were then combined in Superimpose.

Nikon D700 50mm f/8 S:1/750 ISO:200

This is a tightly cropped and rotated view of the entryway to the upper galleries at the Long Beach Museum of Art. The red lines are the railings of the stairway, which were selectively color-shifted in Picnik.

Separation. Displacement. Asunder.

A boundary. A union. A contradiction.

Diremptio is incongruity and antithesis, in agreement; two planes in the same space separated by form, shape, color, depth, meaning; each a stilled moment in its own time joined in common boundary by a contrary moment, like fingerprints on a window, unique, separate, together.

An ongoing series.

Brightly colored flowers with geometric petals are arranged in a blue vase against a vivid blue and yellow background. The composition includes red and purple petaled blooms with dotted centers, alongside green leaves.

burka

I've moved this up for today.

In honor of America, the great Red, White, and Black.

May her righteousness, purity, and greed-free reign continue forever.

Part of Studies in Chaos, Entropy, and Order

Watercolour inlayed collage on 300 g white watercolour paper

59 x 42 cm

2021

This is an abstract view of the wall and part of the ceiling of the Long Beach Convention Center ... with a judicious bit of false color.

The Great Highway is a road in San Francisco that forms the city's western edge along the Pacific coast. It runs for approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) next to Ocean Beach. Its southern end is at Skyline Boulevard (State Route 35) near Lake Merced; it extends to Point Lobos Avenue and the Cliff House at its northern end.

The Great Highway also forms the western border of Golden Gate Park.

The eastern side of the Great Highway is lined with row houses and apartments, many of which have been painted in a variety of bright colors.

Another tight crop of one of the slatted canopies at the Getty Museum

Another abstract of the Getty Museum's curvilinear deliciousness.

I treated this view of the ceiling of the Los Angeles cathedral with a color overlay and boosted the contrast to make this geometric abstract.

I think this building on the University of Houston campus might have housed equipment that needed to be vented. As a consequence, these steel slats are supposed to be functional, but they were also very intriguing in the abstract. A little color overlay and voila!

For Cheridan: I squared up a photo!! ;D

From the set Reading between the lines.