Streets ahead

Thanks for elaborating. I'll keep that in mind moving forward when posting to this sub. I have noticed that people tend to respond positively to more traditional photos and negatively to abstraction. But there are specific subs for posting those images so it's not a big deal.

If you are at all interested in abstract photography, there are plenty of artists to look at. There's Man Ray, Aaron Siskind, and Edward Weston. It started gaining in popularity in the late 1800s / early 1900s with the Abstract Expressionist movement and on through Cubism and Futurism.

I apologize for the delay... I was sick for a while and now on the mend.

'Astronomatopoeia' is a made up portmanteau combining 'astronomy' and 'onomatopoeia'. It's also a catch-all name for the random (semi) daily black and white photos I take.

When walking around my neighborhood, I often look up at the clouds and tree tops and I like the way that bare tree branches look against the sky. It's as if there are cracks forming at the base of the atmosphere.

I also imagine the windshield of my car is a camera's view finder with the edges of the car composing a shot. With these parameters I have to further compose the image and choose the most interesting part.

Taking all this into account, sound plays a huge role in my attitude, thought process, and approach to photography or art making. Whether it's music, silence, or the ambient environmental sounds, it affects the way I think, which in turn, affects what I make.

Observation + sound = random photo named Astronomatopoeia

I'd love to find a small digital rangefinder with a larger lens to carry everywhere with me. 25 years ago I always carried Grandpa's Yashica Lynx 14e and 4 rolls of Tri-X with me "just in case". It was fun.

I like how the approach to black and white photography is different from color. For B&W I concentrate on contrast and form as well as the subject but with color my focus is on saturation and the 'shape' of color. I don't think information is thrown away. I think it's about working with the strengths and parameters of the medium.

Or sometimes it's just play. Astronomatopoeia is play.

Right?! #burnitwithfire

Thanks! This is an image from late last year when I was experimenting with different pixel sorting, glitch, and tilt shift apps. Before then, I was "glitching" images manually using layers in Photoshop, Krita, and Glimpse. If you want to see more, Strictly Arbitrary is on my Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/joshuawmurray/

Thanks!

Thanks!

No worries! I appreciate the explanation. It's a monochrome digital image with a light sepia toned filter applied at the time I took the photo. It's not a true black and white photograph and there aren't any tags for sepia, monochrome, Van Dyke, etc. so I tagged it black and white. I suppose I could start #monochrome .

Would you prefer monochrome?

It's just like how it sounds.

Signed!