Friday, October 1, 2010

Decisions, Decisions

Carmi's gone and done it again.  He picked an unusual theme, and my first reaction when I saw the theme was Parallel was "I have one of those" because I like to dabble in abstract occasionally.  Then I clicked on the link to Written Ink and saw the photo he opened with ... mine could be its sister.  So I couldn't just enter that, it wouldn't be cool.

Now granted I could ... it's not like there's a rule about it, but I'm a bit off beat to start with and I kinda like traveling to the beat of a different drum.  But I was thinking, this could be tough, other than a couple obvious things not a lot came to mind ... to start with.  But as my Magic Man always used to tell me "You have to look at it sideways" and the more I thought about it, the more things I came up with ... and I couldn't pick 'just one'.

Thematic Photographic 117 at Written Ink    Click the link to see more examples of Parallel

Example
Bright Eye   St. Augustine, Florida

This is perhaps my most unique take on this theme.  It is inside a lighthouse looking out.  It was quite the heady feeling to be seeing all those parallel perspectives simultaneously.  So this will be my entry, however I have runners up too :)

Example
Golden Ear

Technically this isn't one of my best, but it's fun.  This was one of my very first experiments with selective color when I was learning how to edit photos.  The rows upon rows of kernels argued they best represented the theme.  Mother Nature presents us with different types of parallels also ...

Example
 Umbrella

Example
Canopy

And yes, now that I've shown that I CAN think for myself I'll show you the abstract too ;)

Example
DiagonAlly

Thanks Carmi, I had fun with this.









 


16 comments:

  1. That mushroom is beautiful!
    What is the last pic?

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  2. Hi M.A.S. The abstract is looking down on some venetian blinds. The window is in the background and the shot is backlit. I took it while doing a study of light and shadow.

    I may have played with the color a bit, for me this one was all about art.

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  3. Clever thinking! These photos are all fantastic and interesting :)

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  4. I'm glad you included your runners up. Beautiful and fun.

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  5. Pretty interesting. Taking what some people would think of as mundane and pushing them into un-mandane-ness.

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  6. Absolutely you had fun with this week's parallel! Outstanding snaps! I thought last week was fun, but it just keeps getting better! How does Carmi do it? I'll check out your ideas too! I especially love the glimpse of water throughout in your light house snap! TY so much!

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  7. I really liked the lighthouse till I scrolled down and saw that AMAZING mushroom!!!! Great shot!

    Here's mine: http://secondwindjewelry.com/jewelry-weaving-blog/2010/10/parallel-weaving/

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  8. Agog and aghast...these are wonderful. I really love how you juxtapose human-made scenes with ones from nature. I expect Bright Eye, in particular, to star in one of my upcoming dreams :)

    And no worries about your nearly-identical one. It's all cool, especially when captured with such care as you show here.

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  9. Really great shots! And I love that fungus!

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  10. Who'd have thought of a corn cob!? what a great interpretation.

    Lovely photos :-)

    ~Juniper~

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  11. That mushroom is incredible! I like the blinds on the window, it took me a minute to realize what it was. I like that.

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  12. The light house is amazing, this is a rarely seen angle, and I really like the way you get multiple broken scenes of the coastline, simply grand. I also enjoyed the mushroom, I am particular to macro, the way the mushroom comes to focus all around is spectacular, I would love to have a carport built to look like that. :D

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  13. the mushroom image is incredible!

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