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Largely inspired by some of John's recent stuff, I decided to try something different today, though I'm not convinced this is entirely successful. And if anyone, other than John, can identify what they're looking at (the title isn't a clue), I'll do them a print.

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comment by John at 09:51 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

I wouldn't hazard a guess, but it's very well done.

comment by russ morris at 09:52 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

not a clue, but it looks quite cool.

comment by john Washington at 10:04 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

brilliant - but i would say that because i love abstracts.

comment by LL at 10:08 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

Is that green thing a leaf? Rays of sun beaming through foliage? Naah, too simple I guess =)
Love the colours though. A very nice abstract indeed!

comment by Ash at 10:12 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

Some abstracts I hate, some I like. This is one I like. It's really neat, love the colours. Almost looks like light coming through water, though I doubt that's what it really is. Normally I wouldn't even try to guess, but because I love your work and I'd die for a free print, I'm going to guess that it's light coming through a window and dispersed in some way?

comment by Christopher Bowns at 10:17 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

I like it.

As for guesses: three thin beams of light, coming from a very small opening (they're extremely skinny). Even though I'm sure it's not, it looks like a foyer of some sort in the top left, almost like something out of the Matrix (big ground floor with 2nd story stairway looking down).

comment by Jamey at 10:18 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

Hmmm... I was gonna say dandelion clock but then I saw it was 17mm so now I'm not sure.

comment by luminouslens at 10:20 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

Rays of light beaming through water?

Whatever it is, it's cool.

comment by mooch at 10:21 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

I like this. I rather like abstract shots. How much of this has been PS'd in though? For me the skill is in finding something of interest in the mundane but without having to post process the effect in after shooting. Great texture, shafts of light refracting nicely.

comment by JM° at 10:38 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

after yesterday's 'debate' (how to explore/or go further into something...)- this one is quite convincing..i like abstract and i like experimental so : this one is remarkable !
as for the identify game : i would say "pure energy" but i know it's not enough !!!!
:-(

comment by photojrny at 10:44 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

Light coming through a window and the curtains blowing in the wind is my guess.

comment by paflechien at 10:50 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

funny composition

What about this one My picture of beach , my first step with photoshopthe "black room"

comment by paflechien at 10:52 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

What do you think about this tryptique, my first one too, may be perfectible !

comment by peter at 11:01 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

I think it's a wire whisk; or a similar attachment for an electric mixer...

comment by Kevin at 11:02 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006

nice shot! very dreamy

comment by Stuart at 12:00 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Makes me think of vibrating guitar strings, but they wouldn't overlap, so I'm stuck.

comment by Andre Malagodi at 12:20 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Nice one.
It's either wiper baldes in a car or curtains moving in wind or then again maybe I have no clue :->

comment by Robert at 12:23 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

I think curtains from Andre is a good guess. Whatever it is, the image is graceful and a beautiful play with light and movement.

comment by antmanbee at 12:29 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Right david
It is obviously the back of a large jellyfish washed up on the shores of cape cod as seen through a broken beer bottle. The greenish tinge has been added using Hue and Curves just to put us off the scent.

comment by Darren Squashic at 12:32 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

When I first saw it I immediately thought they were curtains. It's very surreal, I like it.

comment by Doug at 12:40 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

lol @ antmanbee
I think maybe it's the underneath of one of the piers, maybe some water involved too, but i'm drunk, what do i know...
i like it though

comment by Thinh Q. Thang at 12:56 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

My guess would be a shower curtain because at the top you sort of see the image of a towel as well! Whoo....

comment by dieta at 01:30 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

well johns recent work is all blurred images. and if thats your inspiration, then this isnt light, its just something blurry

im guessing a fork.

comment by Toxic Lens at 01:36 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

No idea what it is, but it's damn cool! And since I'd love a free print, I'll take a guess-- Is it the lost city of Atlantis?

comment by wesley hargrove at 01:51 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

amazing.

comment by Richard Houtby at 03:48 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

You stumped me.
It looks like 3 shots of something as it's rotating and moving across the frame... but I don't know what it is... water? light? vibrating strings of some kind?
The thickness of the lines on the left sides is confusing me. You better email me with an explanation!!

It's a very cool idea and abstract

comment by Richard Houtby at 03:56 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Is it 3 shots blended of a roller coaster track? OK, I'm done.

comment by jasonspix at 04:43 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Not sure what it is, my first thought is bicycle spokes, but i'm probably way off. The previous guess of the lost city of Atlantis is probably closer than mine. I dig it either way.

comment by Susie at 04:57 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

It reminds me of being underwater, it is a very cool image... but I THINK it is looking up a stairwell in a building.

comment by Mattie at 05:35 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Strobe lights, perhaps?

comment by Mark at 07:56 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

The movement of light over water...

comment by Chris Booth at 08:46 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

OK, it's a 2.5 second exposure, and those sure look like beams of light coming through vertical blinds, so I suspect it's the headlights of a car sweeping into your drive and raking its headlights past your window.

comment by Mike at 08:49 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Nice image with dynamic diagonals. My first guess was that it was sunlight through planks in the pier - but near the top left there's what looks like a window. It could be a mix of the reflection in water with shafts of sunlight passing through the air? Looking forward to finding out.

comment by djn1 at 09:18 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

One of you is pretty close to getting right, but I'm not going to say which one, at least not yet ;-)

comment by The Plankmeister at 09:33 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

I think it's a triple exposure where you moved the camera between shots, and it's of a municipal multi-storey car-park or something like that, taken from inside on the stairwell, and there's a skylight at the top of the stairwell. Maybe :)

comment by thomas at 09:45 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

like the image very much, and i think we see an image of curtain with light. you move your camera three time.
regards

comment by Mark Ellis at 10:21 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

got to be wisk or wires, or cables, or water, or floodlights?

comment by Mark at 02:04 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

I'm going for the Susie's stairwell idea. Oh and I also like it too :)

comment by tim at 02:26 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

3 daleks blasting away at the Doctor? (sorry just been watching the last Dr.Who -- it takes this long to get to Australia...)

Probably beams of light through desking as viewed from below? tweeked of course in a Chromasiatic way...

comment by Troy at 04:09 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

It´s a wisk beating

comment by Ries at 04:13 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

I don't know exactly what it is... but awesome effect!

comment by shooter at 05:13 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

It looks like garments in plastic covers from the dry cleaners...

comment by chiara at 06:17 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Looks like some sort of theatrical lighting.
Love the effect!

comment by Karl Baumann at 06:31 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

wow, very cool abstract shot, love it :)

comment by djn1 at 07:41 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Thanks all, and the answer to what this is is posted on tomorrow's entry :-)

comment by Elissa at 07:52 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

weird... you can kinda see a blurred image of a face... it's kinda creepy. Though it would be creepier if I didn't think it was one of your kids hiding behind a transparent curtain :)

comment by djn1 at 09:42 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Oh, and while nobody got it exactly right, Susie was the first to get reasonably close so I'll be sending her the print.

comment by Titus at 10:18 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006

Shall we beg for the original? :D

comment by pooyan at 09:35 PM (GMT) on 11 October, 2006

wow , its realy good one

comment by Ben at 05:51 PM (GMT) on 18 October, 2006

Amazing image. Very dreamlike...calmed me right down. ; )