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.

bluegreen no. 2
by EstimatedEyes

Comment:
Quite beautiful. It's a seascape and a landscape, but there's no point at which one becomes the other. 9.

Dance like nobody's watching and live like its heaven on earth
by Judi

Comment:
I see what it is, but it actually suggested a glimpse of an ancient hominoid to me, celebrating some small triumph over environment (and see where that's got us now!)

Arrakis
by quiet_observation

Comment:
Yes, that looks about right. I see a giant hieroglyph, scratched into the planetary surface. Beautiful amalgam of tone, texture and color in this image. There's just enough of everything; not too much of anything. It's lovely. 9.

Roentgen's Wings
by Imagineer

Comment:
If only I had wings
Wings as white as yours
Up into the sky
I'd surely fly

Well thank you. I knew nothing of Hyde and the Roentgen Stories until I saw this and went where it took me. Beautiful photograph too. 9.