Yep, that would be April, ducking out too quickly hoping to escape the end-of-month abstract toll. And while I was going to do some pun about the other meaning of “toll” since I was completely unprepared less than two hours ago, I don’t think our features this month are all that bad, really. A little too much the same, perhaps, but passable, especially for all having been shot
Tag: abstract
You’ve done all you could, March
Now it’s time to let it go. And we do so with the month-end abstract of course. March left us with two, to split between all of us. Evenly, so don’t be claiming more than your share. They look like this:
This wouldn’t have been half as good without the stippled coloration, which I believe is a breast feather from a male wood duck –
Hope you don’t want February, ’cause we’re out
Or at least, we will be in less than 24 hours. Indeed, this one almost snuck up on me, since I wasn’t aware of how fast the month was passing. I had the beginning of March pegged for removing some of the plants from the greenhouse, and that’s tomorrow. Sheesh.
We also know what that means, so let’s see what we’ve accomplished on the abstract front, shall we?
I
We’ve had enough of this, January!
All right, fine, we’re about 10 hours late on this one. I’m betting not one of you out there exists noticed.
But yes, it’s still the 31st, so still time for the end-of-month abstract. And this one is timely, at least.
Not that hard to figure out, so I won’t try to maintain the suspense, but this is the elaborate showing for the winter storm that was
Tip Jar 4: Bokeh
“Bokeh” is one of those photographic terms that’s a little obscure, defined at times in different ways, and has a varying impact on composition. Basically, it refers to how the out-of-focus portions of the image look, especially the highlights. In the case above, it applies to the branches in the background, which we know are branches because we have a
Remember, remember, the end of December
Or something like that. It’s time for the end of the month abstract, is what we’re sayin’. Unfortunately, it looks like this:
See, there were only about two things that I shot this month that looked even vaguely abstracty, and we’ve already seen those. I toyed with several different subjects, none of which even faintly worth the time, before finally getting
That’ll do, November – that’ll do
So we see the month close out, and what a month it was! Well, certainly a productive one from a photography standpoint, not too shabby as we enter the cold months. I’m not even sure what the count of image uploads stands at now, since I’m writing this ahead of time, but it’s at least 145 counting the ones you’re about to see, which puts it in the top ten for all of the months
Kill the stage lights on October
Yes, we’ve reached the end, which should be plentiful obvious if you’re in the US at least, as the frivolous but nonetheless enjoyable holiday rolls in. As we discovered last year, we see practically no Trick-or-Treaters here at Walkabout Estates Plus, which is kind of a shame – we’ll see what happens this evening.
But the End-Of-Month Abstract waits for no one! Well, except
Was that a September, or what?
Somehow, these months keep ending, which someone should be looking into – I’m sure this isn’t a good thing. But while it’s happening, we’ll at least keep noting this occurrence (until we don’t, anyway) with the month-end abstract. The first was not actually intended to be an abstract as such, but it worked out quite well as one, plus it looks cool. Or at least
Jiskaske nou rankontre ankò, August!
Squeaking in under the wire with this one, getting out two specially-produced abstract images to see August on its way (since I found absolutely nothing during my normal perambulations.) Will this make them better, or worse than normal? Who’s judging? Who’s reading?
Anyway, what I produced after a little playing around a short while ago:
A handful of people might recognize