White Peacock
by Tej

Comment:
Hi Tej! SatSriAkal!
It's very beautiful, man. Like the light is inside the peacock. Very theatrical. You have a fine sense of drama, Tej. Cheers.

Form from Formlessness
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
Oh dear! When I look at the dross (none of which is even remotely abstract) at the ribbon end of this particular heap, I have to say that 243rd place may be a badge of honour!
Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse

Message edited by author 2006-04-05 03:56:33.

Street Tag
by Steveo77z

Comment:
That's ambitious; to disclose the accidental refinement and beauty within something as deliberately ugly and confrontational as a street tag. I think even a literal representation of something (which this is) can become an abstract view when it discovers a subject-within-a-subject like this. Especially when the original, literal subject has been so thoroughly banished. 8.

Linked
by snowdog

Comment:
Is it abstract? Probably not ... it might be more 'found art' when used like this. Either way, it's arresting. 7.

AULD LANG SYNE
by grainman9

Comment:
This is very good. It's just comprehensible enough to be tantalising, but not comprehensible enough to be actually resolvable. I look, of course, for a NEW YEAR resolution, and happily I don't find it. I feel that understanding and insight is there, but just out of reach. That's how I like it. 9.

Playing with colours
by Structor

Comment:
A classical abstract (it's not at all representational), and a very good one. When there is no apparent attempt at depicting or even suggesting any particular thing, the viewer is freed to abandon any attempt at resolution of the image, and can instead just see where the colours, shapes, textures and tones might lead. It's an experience like Through the Looking Glass when it works, and this one does. 9.

Form from Formlessness
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
My only 10. I love the elegance of the two curves. I love the beautiful, subtle tonal gradient. Most of all, I love the sympathetic distillation of the subject; the way you have isolated and captured its essence without having to represent it literally, or at least entirely. It's perhaps not technically abstract, but I don't technically care. Bravo!

Minimal Suffering
by mocabela

Comment:
This image establishes an idea that presumably has nothing to do with its subject's actual identity. It is literally representational, and so maybe not strictly abstract, but its impact is certainly at least largely figurative and that's near enough for me! 8.

Sudden understanding
by scotthadl

Comment:
This is fascinating. It is probably just a hole in a bit of metal (razor blade? metal ruler?), but that's irrelevant. What is so appealing about it is the fact that it suggests a resolution, but never quite delivers it. The most compelling thought is celestial. A planet against a meteor shower? A moon against a mega-planet? Or maybe it's something very small; at the sub-atomic level? Whatever, it is an attractive and absorbing image. I like the title, too; I feel I almost understand it, but then I don't. 8.

In Vitro
by xtine

Comment:
It's a very challenging photograph. Most of what I see is reflected, I think. The colours are well done, and unify the chaos just enough. I feel I should be able to resolve this image, but fortunately I can't. 8.