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Shawn McNulty Abstract Artistshawnmcnulty.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-23

Bombus is a new 24x24” acrylic abstract painting on cradled board available here: shorturl.at/1qjVS Title is inspired by bumblebees. 🐝 What do you see? ShawnMcNulty.com #art #fineart #abstract #abstractart #Abstractpainting #bumblebee #contemporaryart #modernart #kunst #bees #blueskyart #colorful

Pierre Etchemaïtépango@pixelfed.fr
2025-07-23
Peinture abstraite au format paysage; arcs et formes pleines, légèrement de biais, rouges et oranges sur un fond jaune pâle
꧁ᐊ𰻞ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣́́♛ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣́́𰻞ᐅ꧂idontlikenames@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-23
when u try to put orbit traps(r=1 circle) in ur anti-buddhabrot
Catherine BabaultCatherineBabault
2025-07-23

I love abstract in photography. I always look for abstract compositions in nature. This weekend was bright and sunny and the tide was low when we arrived at the beach. It was the perfect combination for this type of images.

When people look at some of my photos, they think that they are paintings and have to take a closer look. I did oil painting for 20 years.

An abstract image of a sandy beach at low tide with some clouds in the blue sky. It looks blurry overall but we can tell where the photo was taken.

Lens-Artists Challenge #357: Into the Woods

This week it’s the turn of Egídio of Through Brazilian Eyes to host the Challenge, and his theme is ‘Into The Woods‘. He says, ‘I briefly mentioned the Japanese expression shinrin-yoku in a post about national forests … a concept that was developed in Japan in the 1980s as a form of natural therapy and stress relief, or immersing oneself in a forest atmosphere. It is a way to allow all your senses to experience nature mindfully.’ Egídio continues, ‘this week’s challenge is about how you [practise] ‘forest bathing’ in your corner of the world. 

Regular readers of my blog may have noticed that the woods behind our house feature regularly in my blog posts. Whether it’s testing a new-to-me camera, or practising a new technique, or just going for a walk to relax or work off a heavy lunch, I’ll always head off for a ‘walk around the block’. For this Challenge, I’m taking one of my favourite cameras, the Olympus Camedia C-100 digital camera into the woods. 

The Olympus Camedia C-100 is a 1.3-megapixel CCD sensor with a fixed-focus lens released by Olympus in 2001. It’s fully automatic, which means that you can make next to no changes to the image you are taking, like monochrome mode for my beloved aerochromes. It’s a ‘point-and-shoot’ camera, and the sliding lens cover means that I can’t fix a filter thread to the camera, so if I want to make trichromes or aerochromes then I have to hold filters over the front of the lens, and sometimes the surround of the filter, or my stubby fingers, get into the frame.

The unique feature of this camera is that the sensor is failing, and I reckon that it’s overexposing by around 10 stops. Without any filter the images are completely blown out, but I’ve found that with a cheap Neewer ND2-400 variable ND filter on its maximum setting the vastly overblown natural images are made much more legible. It’s still a little overexposed on bright sunny days, but in overcast weather or in shadow the results are quite ‘good’.

I took the Camedia C-100 on a walk around the block, along with a tripod and a collection of filters. My intention was to try to make some digital trichromes and aerochromes, with red, green, blue, and infrared filters, but looking at the images from the red filter I reckon that the sensor has deteriorated even further and it seems to be even more infrared-sensitive. This did actually have some benefits in that red/blue channel mixed images came out wonderfully, but the images are now full of artefacts. Of course, I’m perfectly happy with that, the more glitchy this camera becomes, the better.

Around the fields behind our house, the woods look as they used to, but now, the once thick eucalyptus woods have been cut down to make way for heavy duty power lines for the long-promised high speed rail line between Lisbon and Madrid. I can still derive a lot of pleasure from the woods that remain, but now I just have to walk a little further.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

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#Abstract #Challenge #Digicam #Digitalcamera #Glitch #Glitchy #LensArtists #Sensor #Trees #Trichrome #InTheWoods #LensArtists

A channel mixed image of the remains of our local woods.
2025-07-23

#painting #drawing #sketch #art #MastoArt #kleinekunstklasse #abstract #depression
Willst du nicht da raus gehen? Der Mob wütet so schön. Geh nur!

Grüne Flammen.
Catherine BabaultCatherineBabault
2025-07-23

Another photo using ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) during my photo workshop this weekend.

Abstract photo of a sandy beach and a cloudy sky.
Catherine BabaultCatherineBabault
2025-07-22

During my three-day workshop this weekend, we practice ICM at a local beach. ICM means Intentional Camera Movement.

How did I create this image? my shutter speed was slow (1/10 s), my camera was on a tripod, I moved the camera from left to right while pressing the shutter button. Et voilà!

An abstract composition of a sandy beach and blue skies.

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