Photography is widely accepted as one of the most versatile artforms there is. It is able to capture an instant in time of a historical or momentous event and also the ability to capture the patterns in nature as well. Choice of subject matter can provide you with natural abstract beauty and untouched panoramas of nature. Photographs can provide the subject matter for artists in other mediums that utilize pencil, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics or oils. They can display the artistic mind of the photographer both through subject matter choices and the manipulation of the photo(s) to create moods or other inspirations in producing the final image. It might be a composite of several images, which takes you into a world that did not exist in reality. Let’s look at some of them!
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Photo 1: (Featured at the top of this page) That fraction of a second! One Lapis Lazuli is scolding another one and chasing it off the branch they were sharing. Photo 2: This is a composite photograph combining an aerial shot I took of several craters in the San Francisco Volcanic Field east of Flagstaff, a shot of clouds I took while in the air and a Hubble shot I downloaded from the web. They are copyright free, and I always give them a photo credit. Colors and other aspects were manipulated to get the image I wanted. A reality that did not exist until now.
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Photo 3: This portrait of two dogs was manipulated to remove the setting they were in and replaced with a new abstract background. In the original photograph, the dogs were sitting on their owner’s lap in a golf cart in back of our home. I removed the owner, the golf cart and expanded the greenery that lay behind them.
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Photo 4: This is a natural abstract photograph of the bark on a Sycamore tree at Montezuma Well near Rim Rock, Arizona. No artist could do better than nature!
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Photo 5: The beauty of trees reflecting in the slightly disturbed waters of a pond provides an abstract image with colors and beauty.
