Abstract II (Christmas Colours)

[jjeling]

I guess Ill post my abstract here. The night we had our first snowfall, I drove around looking for some Christmas lights. I found them but thought I would take pictures of them in a less traditional manner. As I drove around the city neighborhoods, I used a long exposure to capture some of the colors, instead of the what you would normally see.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2544/4172757643_3b3c68f544_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4172759449_cb24e21e9f_b.jpg

[Bambi]

I quite like these. well captured!:highfive:

[Marko]

The exposures are too long for me on these JJ...I can no longer tell what this image is about. Hope that helps somewhat - Marko

[jjeling]

Marko, I understand your thoughts completely. Everyone has seen nice still shots of Christmas lights at night. I just wanted to try something different. As much as these may be shots of Christmas lights, to me they are not about Christmas. I just wanted to break the traditional thought of photography by taking unorthodox images of Christmas lights. I personally felt successful. If you did not know these were Christmas lights, I feel that you might have a different feeling towards the image and may wonder, "this is cool, wonder what the thought process was, and how was it captured?"

[scorpio_e]

I like odd and abstract but this doe not work for me either.Sorry.. A pano crop on the top portion first one might be interesting

[kat]

I think this is a hard thing to critique as it's more of a "you like this style" or "not".

Sure makes me wonder on how you were moving to get htem!