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Or: A Little Help From My Friends
I almost never work with the blur tool but yesterday I saw a rather wonderful image posted by Dana Marostega, a.k.a. "13 skies". He was kind enough to share how he did it and got me experimenting with motion blur. His is a lovely image of a city street scene and while I did try that I found I wanted to do something other than being a copycat.
After stumbling through a number of photographs and making a wretched mess of things....basically mud pies.....I tried using a photo of a glass wall of windows. Anyway, after about a gazillion different steps I came up with this. You just might have guessed by now either I have too much time on my hands lately or I don't sleep very well.
Or both.
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My website: www.hollycawfieldphotography.net/
My abstract experiments:
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I've photographed this tree a few times because I like it's shape and the way it has built-in composition. It got hit in a lightning storm last year so its shape is even more interesting now.
It's a fascinating thing to experiment with photographs in order to see where they can be taken during the editing process. When I was working on this one the combination of snow on the branches and a texture that had already been applied to it suddenly burst into what looked like blossoms ... with a couple of clicks it just sort of exploded like spray insulation.
That type of editing process has a name: "Fly by the seat of your pants."
(But you might need a seatbelt.)
:-)
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My website: www.hollycawfieldphotography.net/
My abstract experiments:
www.flickr.com/photos/188106602@N04/
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Invervallum is Latin for interval. The title is descriptive of the series that explores spacial 'intervals' and relationships with other objects in proximity, as well as with the negative space surrounding them.
Indeed, we all have 'intervals' in our personal lives that we experience in our relationships, our work, with family, and even within ourselves.
For me it begs the question of what guides us into, through, and out of such periods when we experience distance and separation.
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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.
Marin Civic Center - San Rafael, CA
UPDATE: I'm thrilled to announce that my photo above won first place in the Abstract category for the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 2009 Annual Contest. My photo will be displayed in a show in Madrid, Spain in the spring of next year.
For the full list of winners, see the Jurors' Announcement.
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Gray, 1925, Oil on canvas in the artist's painted frame, 19¾ x 19¾ in - 48.26 x 48.26 cm, Private collection
Altro titolo - Another title: L'universo mondo a pezzi (The universe in pieces), 2025
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Acrylic on canvas board, 20 x 16"
I'm enjoying the process and problems of painting far more than the stuff I have done digitally. It'll be interesting to see if I actually go back to doing things on computers. I certainly don't much feel inspired to at the moment.
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.
I invite you to the world of vaporwave aesthetics. Let it be a computer puzzle game. Where your main task will be creation.
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.
That strange and unusual, almost forgotten state, the feeling, when traveling in labyrinths of consciousness, when your dreams pop up with bright pictures against a background of general grayness and external emptiness.
You're the creator, everything in your hands, you're the writer of the new series. Images, situations, time and place, you have the right to change everything in your own way. A logical question arises, is this a childish state of dreaming meaningless?
Year after year, we get older and our dreams become more practical and meaningful. There will be no more of that naivety. But having reached a certain stage, we realize that we have didn't go far from our original state. And it helps us to create our own world, because in fact, when we dream, we're getting closer to our goals.
In creating this image, I wanted to strip architecture down to its purest geometric essence. By isolating this zigzag pattern against the empty sky, I aimed to transform a three-dimensional structure into an almost two-dimensional graphic composition. The deliberate framing—placing the pattern on the right with ample negative space on the left—was intended to create visual tension and highlight the dramatic rhythm of the chevrons. I was particularly drawn to how light interacts with these angular surfaces, creating a stark contrast between the illuminated planes and shadowed recesses. This photograph represents my ongoing exploration of how architectural elements can transcend their utilitarian purpose to become abstract visual poetry. By removing all context and focusing solely on pattern and form, I wanted viewers to appreciate the inherent beauty in these geometric relationships that often go unnoticed in our daily encounters with the built environment. The monochromatic palette further emphasizes the purity of form and the interplay between positive and negative space that gives this structure its distinctive character.