Everyday abstracts - Finding the unusual in everyday scenes



Shattered

Today I'm posting a few photographic abstracts that are straight shots with no photo manipulation other than cropping and color adjustment. I have a background in painting and  graphic arts. I've always liked many of the abstract and impressionist painters.  I've found as these photos illustrate, that abstract photo images are all around us. In some of my earlier blogs, you read about how I use reflection to create a new view of a common image.
Shattered was taken at an abandoned building in an old railway station in Midway Utah. The reflection caught my eye and I had to move quickly since the light was changing rapidly. I love the broken sky. This photo has been exhibited a lot and often causes a double take. 

Springfield Morning was another image that I noticed out of my hotel window. Lots of layers, distortion and the grid of the window frames make this common picture pretty unusual. It's hard to know where inside ends and outside starts.

Manhattan #3 is a shot from the roof top of an Art museum. Framing the artwork with the gray building behind made for a great contrast of color with the building and again causes a double take trying to figure out what exactly is going on.

I hope you find this a useful tip.
Michael
These image are on my web site StillsLife.com

Springfield Morning

Manhattan #3