Abstracts & details (158 images)

Here in Tennessee the landscapes tend to be more intimate, than grand. So as a photographer you learn to look for the details in nature, the small pieces of a scene: the lines, colors, reflections, textures or patterns.
Go far enough down this path, and you wind up making abstracts. As your photos focus more on details, sometimes they become so removed from their visual context they can no longer be called "scenics".
At this point, the images say more about the...
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Here in Tennessee the landscapes tend to be more intimate, than grand. So as a photographer you learn to look for the details in nature, the small pieces of a scene: the lines, colors, reflections, textures or patterns.
Go far enough down this path, and you wind up making abstracts. As your photos focus more on details, sometimes they become so removed from their visual context they can no longer be called "scenics".
At this point, the images say more about the photographer's vision, than about any particular landscape.
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