Patti’s challenge this week is centered around Abstract Photography, which is non-traditional images of objects or landscapes which use shapes, forms, lines, textures and patterns to compose intriguing works of art. In most circumstances, Abstract Art is filled with exciting colors and textures in hopes of grabbing attention and creating an emotional response. One of the objectives is to entice the viewer to ask questions and perhaps study the image in greater depth.
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso
This is one of my favorite images probably because of its overall vertical shape along with aqua, blue and brown colors.
Details: Adobe Photoshop was used in editing; the reflection was vertically flipped and lightened. 
The interesting thing about these two pictures is that they visually demonstrate Picasso’s quote above: “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” The original picture, below, shows a man rowing his dingy across the water. The Abstract photograph, above, shows his reflection on the surface the water and the thin white line coming up from the bottom of the image is the paddle.
“You can’t look at abstract art without thinking.” – Patricia Cole-Ferullo
This picture was created in-camera by vertically panning a row of trees, the marsh and the sky.
This duck caught my eye while he was out for a morning swim. His coloring and the diagonal movement of the water gave the picture an Abstract quality.
“Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.” – Willem de Kooning
These last three Abstract images were created at night while moving the camera in a particular pattern while standing on a high hotel balcony and facing colored lights around a parking garage in the distance. Details: Nikon D7000, A Priority, 50 mm, 4.0 sec, f/5, IOS 400, Spot Metering. Edited using Adobe Photoshop CC and Nik Software.
“The goal of abstract art is to communicate the intangible, that which eludes the photograph and normal seeing.” – Curtis Verdun
“The less descriptive the photo, the more stimulating it is for the imagination. The less information, the more suggestion; the less prose,
the more poetry.” – Ernst Haas