Vineyard in a winter mist

Vineyard mist

 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Monochromatic

Monochromatic Abstract Expressionism

Monochromatic abstract expressionism.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Close Up

Balls and bokeh

This is close up but what is it?

Weekly Photo Challenge – Muse

The question in this week’s challenge (“What subject keeps you coming back?”) had me scratching my head until it occurred to me that recently I have been (ahem) stuck on cacti (prickly pear to be specific). Here are some examples for your aMUSEment.

Cacti

Shadow shadow

Shadow shadow

 

Sax Man – redux

In my original Sax Man post, I thought the bit of color in the image sort of fit the ‘drip painting’ idea but, in a comment, annieabr wanted to see the image in  monochrome. After making the conversion, I would agree this is a stronger graphic .

Picassoesque_sax_man_monochrime

Then I thought, why  not go all the way to an even more graphic ‘pen and ink’ version.

 

Pcassoesque_sax_man_black_and_white

Each has its own merits, I suppose. Your thoughts?

Miniature dress

‘Coarse Set’

HDR processed to enhance textures.