Lady and Dog

“Photography and the Art of Seeing” by Freeman Patterson is arrived yesterday. Here I read “Abandon any preconceptions about the subject matter……..New ideas and feelings will guide you as you make pictures”. So corrosion on this container becomes a lady with her dog. I converted it into negative – guided by my feelings.

[Alicias]

I can see a lady and her dog too. The dog looks a bit like a poodle. I like how you manage to make something unattractive look so interesting.

[Maggiemae]

Imagination coupled with interpretation gives a whole new meaning to life!

[Pamela]

Great abstract. Fantastic colors and textures. I see the lady at the top. I would love to have that book too. A fav for me.

[Dakotaburns]

Well done.

[Ksenia]

Do you want to know what exactly I'm thinking? Simply the wall. The wall of the hospital, the wall of the school, the wall of any municipal institution! This is really funny, because the picture is so familiar for me. And yes, watching such walls really developes imagination... That's why they were in the kindergarten!!! ;)

[Carol W]

I love this. It's very creative, seeing figures in the shapes, changing the colours and following your feelings. Great work.

[Rachel]

I love the way that doing 365 makes you 'see' in a more mindful and different way. It sounds like that book takes it to another level. This is a striking image :... like Google Earth :-)

[Babs]

Great shot. Really makes you think. I can see the lady and the dog too. I love seeing shapes in abstract photography. This shot reminds me of Earth from above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

[Lisa Stein]

Wonderful abstract shot. Great colors! Good job on applying the lesson.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Well done Yao. It is very imaginative! The inverted colors are a great foil to one another.

[Angela Tavan]

wonderful creative abstract Yao! May I ask you what you used to convert it to negative? I used to be able to do that on an old PS elements, but can't find how to do it on PS elements 10. It can give some fantastic effects, as here!

[tingliu]

独具慧眼，可以发现一些别人看不到的美

[Yao RL]

@angelat I am using the app called FastStone, It has one clike function called Negative.

[Lisa Pouncy]

I'm currently revising for an exam, one subject being visual perception. This type of thing is known as an 'impoverished figure'. Clues are needed before perception and once they are given the image can be seen. What is being sensed hasn't changed but the perception of it has. I can totally see the lady and the dog and would have great difficulty 'unseeing' it now. Wonderful image xx

[Yao RL]

@psychographer “impoverished figure” – so interesting. In other hand, the clue could restrict people’s imagination and influence people’s decision making, as undo the perception is a difficult process. Thank you. I value your input greatly.