Superhero Photo Challenge: Abstract

Do you remember Highlights magazine from when you were a kid? I remember poring through it at the dentist's office or the eye doctor, always flipping as quickly as I could to the back section where the photography was. There was always a page full of photographs of things that were taken so close is was hard to decipher what the object was anymore- a tennis ball, a waffle, someone's skin. The game of course was to guess what each thing was.

I still have a love of the super macro and the indecipherable abstract image. This week's challenge is to capture an abstract image, either by photographing something extremely closeup or simply by seeing color and form in a new way.

Comments

[Tiffany]

I think it's a stucco wall with a layer of blue paint chipping off.

[Charlane]

looks like an old ship - well worn and maybe now retired

[kosenrufu mama]

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!!!!!!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23206424@N07/3257022475/
http://esterdaphne.blogspot.com/

[Shawna]

Oh my gosh, I loved Highlights! What a trip down memory lane.

I posted this last summer, but I still love how the first shot turned out. I definitely need to make more of an effort to take the obscure macro shots. It's such a unique world at that level.

http://tumblieweed.blogspot.com/2008/09/everyone-is-lamenting-close-of-summer.html

[Puna]

I posted a closeup a while back just for fun.

http://lifesignatures.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/princess/

[margie]

an overhead light fixture, looking abstract both in the photo and at the store.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margela/3258111358/

[brittany]

i took this yesterday, not knowing what the chellenge was going to be.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivyerfamily/3256252765/

[liz]

Love this challenge! I took this shot awhile ago and it reminded me how much I love abstract.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewhitaker/3177922115/

[Meg]

I love close, I love abstract :) Here is one of my favorites to date:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7565577@N04/3232792732/

Enjoy your weekend!

[jody]

I get as close as possible..because Yes I too love the small details. And the abstract. Sometimes people around me look at me like "what"? They just dont get it lol.

I am hoping and saving for a 100mm Macro lens. But until I have the cash I do what I can do. Here are a few of my fav shots =)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodyangel/3225662129/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodyangel/3215481119/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodyangel/3191690824/

[NotAnna]

I'm a macro/abstract gal too.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/notanna/art/2479724-2-blue-banshee

http://www.redbubble.com/people/notanna/art/2310875-2-flaming-threads

[Jeannette]

I love close-ups. Sometimes I feel like I need to step back a little. But here's a recent shot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7550209@N04/3195113427/

[camerashymomma]

i loved that section of highlights magazine too! this photo if i didnt' know it was an extreme macro i'd think it was a satellite image of the earth from space! i see land and ocean and atmosphere and weather!

i really like doing abstracts, they feel like art to me. turning raindrops into tents at night and that sort of thing :)
here's an oldie but a goodie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/camerashymomma/2220070098/

[Marcie]

It's been a long time since I thought about Highlight's magazine. Brings back memories....
Just a few abstracts of mine:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=668
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=471
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=464

[Mandi]

Although I'm trying to teach myself to capture the wide angle too, close-ups are my favorites: http://noapathyallowed.com/2009/02/07/abstract/

[Liz]

I posted this last summer, but immediately thought of it when I read this post:

http://inventingliz.blogspot.com/2008/08/sedum-up-close.html

The title gives away what it is, so no challenge there! I love all the different shades of pink and red in this one spot.

[Karyn]

I love Highlights! This one should be fun. Off I go in search of abstract awesomeness!

[Belinda]

This is an incredibly timely challenge (Yet again, Andrea, your powers of connection astound me), as I just found the macro button on my new camera this morning, so I've spent the day doing extreme close-ups. These are the three I'm submitting for this challenge - not difficult to guess, but fun to take. The third photo is probably my favourite out of the lot, as it was a complete accident:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/selfsufficiencygirl/3260258289/in/set-72157613124180947/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/selfsufficiencygirl/3260258469/in/set-72157613124180947/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/selfsufficiencygirl/3260278475/in/set-72157613124180947/

[Julie Alvarez]

Sometimes I think that I can't do much on this area with the camera I use to take... But still, some things are just like that and they turn out like abstract paintings or something...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/3258657878/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/3118888284/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/2915249206/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/2914391847/

[megmanionsilliker]

i loved the look of this chandelier while laying underneath it.
http://flickr.com/photos/shoot_photography/2252048580/in/photostream

[Kelly]

I have no idea what that photo is, but I love it. Such pretty colors, such a "stop and look, I'm lovely!" I have an abstract set on Flickr: things I see every day that I never really see. Lovely challenge, giving us permission to find what we see but don't dare to capture because it doesn't seem to stand out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8702729@N02/sets/72157613447664371/

[liz]

I like abstract photographs because it reminds me to look at ordinary things in a new way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewhitaker/3258904537/

[Sandra]

i loved highlights, too! I especially like this challenge...to see things differently. i spent some time yesterday trying to get a few closeups of a great antique water pail and the texture in all its flaky paint...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/myinspiredheart/3261503498/

[Meryl]

It almost looks like a penny or something else coppery. What a fun idea!

[Cherie S.]

Inside of an ice formation that I call the Ice Blob on Belle Isle in Detroit, MI:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cstangis/3259825126/

[Julie Alvarez]

Oh! Just a bit more..:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/3261308056/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/3260485675/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/3261318606/in/photostream/

[spread your wings]

i used to love that magazine. wow it really brings back memories.
this is an old photo but I like this challenge and will try to look at things differently this week in order to get some new ones..

http://autumnsun08.blogspot.com/2009/02/ss-superhero-photo-challenge-abstract.html

[Oliag]

Highlights magazine must have improved since I was a child...I always hated it if that was the only thing to read in the doctor or dentist office because it was boring!...and I don't remember it having photos...I love taking pictures of things close up even tho I use a point and shoot camera...some times it works and sometimes it doesn't...here is an example...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22733432@N08/3261473789/
http://picturingtheyear.blogspot.com/

[Wanda]

This was an accident. I didn't even know I was taking it at the time. Oh, well....

http://whatwouldwandado.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-if-we-were-really-meant-to-live-in.html

[JoAnne]

I took this a while back and loved the color that this exposure produced.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31299004@N02/3263418293/

[yellow pooky]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowpooky/3059300111/

[melia]

love abstract macro. this is oxidized copper

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artfromm/3231374117/

[keli]

fun challenge!! it forced me to look outside my usual focus ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twelve-paws/3265481326/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twelve-paws/3265480808/

[Schelle]

I LOVE abstract macros! I'm looking forward to a whole week of them! To start with, though - a serendipity of colour and form: http://fleetingreality.blogspot.com/2009/02/41.html

[Karyn]

not too difficult to guess, but I finally found something.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayak57/3271360291/

[Diane Schuller]

Here is one of my more recent abstract offerings

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27458974@N00/3274917562/

[tricia]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29526024@N03/3275032329/

[Liz]

i took this around the time this entry was published but haven't had time to upload it till now....it was fun to play around with, but made me realize that i REALLY need a better macro camera!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilybeth29/3285607512/in/pool-shuttersisters