Autumn Impressions

[Nancy Bell]

While sitting in the backseat of the car and traveling through some beautiful fall color in Arkansas I experimented with blurs plus twisting the camera in a rocking-like motion. Does anyone else hate that the back windows of cars do not open all the way down? I just did not have the freedom to use the camera as I wanted with only approximately two-thirds of the window open. So often I had bits and pieces of the car in my images.

Post processing: topaz adjust 5 soft focus, reduced opacity layer of fractalius, cloned some of the arching branches and flipped them over to the opposite side, PS filter angled strokes.

[Dennis Bishop]

Besides liking the color combination, the flow of the lines, and the positive challenge (without your text) to figure out what it is, I really like the fact that it's only partially symmetrical. It very much engages both the eye and the mind.

[John Foster]

I like it. Very compelling image. Wonderful blend of vertical and horizontal lines.

[Diane Miller]

Excellent! Very interesting blur shapes, enhanced by the processing. Looks like a fisheye, or is that effect in PP?

[Anita Bower]

An interesting abstract. The white shapes look like trees to me, and I keep wanting them to be green. Nice movement and flow. I like how the curving horizontal lines at the bottom ground the image. I think I'm going to learn to appreciate abstract art on this forum, if only I can understand it!
Back seats have other disadvantages; the one I object to most is not being able to hear the conversation going on in the front.

[Nancy Bell]

Thanks all! I used a 24-105mm lens at 24mm. The fish-eye look is from rocking the camera while taking the blur image at 1/3 sec @ f18. Both the dark and white vertical lines are tree trunks, the white ones are birch trees. Anita, I also like those curves at the bottom of the image.

And I agree that it is hard to hear conversations while sitting in the back seat. So I amuse myself taking blurs out the window !

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Interesting Nancy, I too like the contrasting horizontals and verticals. Anita I don't think you have to understand abstract art, it is how it makes you feel.

[Anita Bower]

Interesting Nancy, I too like the contrasting horizontals and verticals. Anita I don't think you have to understand abstract art, it is how it makes you feel.

Jackie: Your response re abstract art is exactly what a couple of artists told me today--what emotions does the work evoke. I'll focus on that. Thanks.