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    Asphalt Puddle

    Total departure from what I usually shoot. A shot of a puddle as it was drying in the winter with all of the salt deposits. Manipulated in photo shop . BTW a range finder shot.
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    This certainly is a departure from your norm ... do I detect some color in your shot? :-) Good eye, as usual, with this abstracty kind of image.

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    Charles, thanks. The shot is from a 35 year old color slide but looks almost B&W with the salt deposits creating a design in grey tones. I just over saturated it in P.S. to bring out whatever color was there without completely changing what it was. I made it to enter in a local gallery competition "Beyond The Obvious" where they are looking for an image that doesn't retain it's original truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerry Widen
    Charles, thanks. The shot is from a 35 year old color slide but looks almost B&W with the salt deposits creating a design in grey tones. I just over saturated it in P.S. to bring out whatever color was there without completely changing what it was. I made it to enter in a local gallery competition "Beyond The Obvious" where they are looking for an image that doesn't retain it's original truth.
    I like abstracts a lot Gerry and this one is a good one. One thing that is fun is that there is nothing besides your title/description to give it a scale so this could be almost anything from a satellite photo to microscopic. I also think abstracts are stronger when the viewer has no idea of what the subject is.
    I also think that a good abstract isn't one that "doesn't retain it's original truth" but one that finds it when not distracted by the obvious. This one does. Nice work. Do some more.

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    Another abstract

    This is of some melting ice on the road. Same as above basically just saturated the colors.
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