On my exploration of some old property yesterday, I found an old truck with all my favorite things: Rivets, rust, shiny metal and peeling paint. Here are a few fun things that came out of it.
Feedback always welcome.
UPDATE - Third image with no dog/elephant/alien....
You certainly have an eye for abstraction, Ruth! These are very enjoyable.The monochrome is an excellent idea here. I especially like the first, in its graphic simplicity. The second reminds me of one of those treeline-reflected-against-the-lake shots gone horribly wrong! Or is that an animal in the middle? Love the crazy associations that your images produce for me - not all abstract photos do. We should call you Ruth Rorschach. You might like Aaron Siskind's work if you don't know it already.
Ruth Rorschach is awesome! I love that you look at these long enough to see things!
But damn now I just see a dog right in the middle. I might have to play with that.
I didn't want to say it, but now I will - I thought (amongst other things) of an elephant that had had a bad accident.
Ug. I can't wait to get home from Easter dinner to chop a leg or two off the dog-elephant.
And I thought you were an animal lover.
what do you think?
Cheat!
Am I going crazy, or has the composition suffered a bit? I can take the news even if it's bad.
(PS: I can see where you've cloned from.)
(PPS: There's another multilegged animal to the right as well.)
I also thought it lost something (other than the creature) when I took it out. I'm going to keep the original. But, it might be one of those photographs that linger in the files because I want to like it but can't get over some detail. Oh Well - you win some you lose some!
You could clone on to the critter, rather than remove it. Or leave it. It's a fine image, in all seriousness!
Always interesting Ruth. I really like the range of tones, shapes, and textures in #1, and the thought-provoking, graphic nature of #2.
I like #2. It almost looks like a Lambert Cylindrical map projection of an alien world with the continents concentrated near the equator.