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by krnodil

Comment:
It's lovely. Great comment from Tom. I won't try to top it. Except the bed part ... it's not late at all way round on this side.

A Patch of Blue
by bvy

Comment:
That's beautiful. It takes some unravelling, which is of course a good thing. The patch of blue, the bars effect and the high wall all together made me think of a prison. But I think it's only a figurative prison.

tunnel
by cmtc

Comment:
Yes, a worthy first post. Gives us all something to shoot for (pardon the pun). It's a very cool sci-fi effect. Or maybe this is what it look like when you die. You know, instead of the bright white light and the celestial music.

Cavalry in motion
by Titia

Comment:
I thought of T E Lawrence and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It's a beautiful photograph. 9.

just moving along
by cutout

Comment:
This is my choice for Best Genuine Abstract in Challenge. It's abstract, and yet the intimation of it is apparent; there is not just movement, there is a sense of progression. It's movement from something to something. Onward and upward, in the evolutionary sense. In crude terms, it's like one of those Descent of Man illustrations with a chimp on the left and a person in a business suit on the right, and some intermediary stages in between. But of course, being abstract, it's much more stimulating than that. It suggests not just movement, not even just progression, but aspiration. And even if it doesn't mean anything at all, it's still great to look at, isn't it? 10. And an Order of the Thumb:

Lilly had dreams of going to the ball..
by whiteroom

Comment:
In the outback, an Aussie named Blue
told his mate Kev the Kiwi, "Kev, you
can keep all your cheap
Kiwi passion for sheep,
but a 'roo in a tutu? Woohoo!"

Run
by lmoro

Comment:
What a fabulous photograph. It's not at all abstract of course, but who cares about that? It's truly brilliant in every way. It encapsulates all that is thrilling and magical about photography. Among other things, it affirms the wonderful fact that photograph really is capable of being the art for everybody. If I could take just one picture like this in all of my life, I'd be happy with my photography. I'd probably even be smug. Well, I admit I'm already smug, but this would give me something to be smug about. 10. And the Order of the Thumb:

Astral Projection
by Yesac

Comment:
Yes. It's very beautiful. Not exactly abstract in literal terms, but certainly it is so in a figurative sense. There's a suggestion of yin-yang, and another of the out-of-body excursion referred to in the title. Acid trip for those of us who remember the 60s (which nobody does). I don't know what it means, but I like how it looks and how it makes me feel when I look at it for a while. 9.

Primordial Chaos
by davemce

Comment:
It's interesting you should say that because even the primordial chaos is governed by the universal laws. So there is an order here, beneath all the disorder. It's a very comforting thought. Religion for the non-credulous. 9.

reaching up
by bobcc

Comment:
Very lovely. It reminds me of a famous painting that's so famous I can't recall it. But it's good. Just like this. 9.