webs
by krnodil

Comment:
I'm not so crazy about the zoneplate stuff as I am about the pinhole. I don't exactly know why. It's just a feeling that it's neither one thing nor the other; not bad enough to be good, if you know what I mean? I think I need to see some more of them. I'm headed to your portfolio now, hoping to see some other examples.

Oh, I'm back already. There's some terrific shots there (including two that I'd commented on thinking they were pinholes). I know nothing, apparently. I guess it's just this shot that I'm not so crazy about. Still don't know why.

Message edited by author 2009-04-01 09:07:45.

Reflection
by trevytrev

Comment:
It's much more elegant than any effect I can get with my two home made pinholes. I think I got all the distances & dimensions wrong.

A particularly lovely part of this is the difference between the upper and lower (i.e. reflected) versions of the scene.

. . .
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.

Birds
by chuckiero

Comment:
This is wonderful. As if the earth shifted while they were all in flight. White birds in a black sky; a touch of M C Escher, and a lovely kind of hint at the glorious enigma of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. 10. And the Order of the Thumb:

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: