The Dharamsala Abstract
ok so I did a series of 249 abstract photographs, I really like them as a whole. they were taken in India over the course of one night. there are 249 so you basically have to open the gallery in another tab (Firefox users, hopefully everyone) and let it load because the full views wont load until all the 249 thumbnails have. So take a look but please be patient. so here is the link, The Dharamsala Abstract. By the way, I forgot to mention that all of these photos are right out of the camera no manipulation at all, they were shot as jpg’s because I had no intention of modifying them.
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i like the thing as a whole too, although i’d love to have some on my walls: 9 10 15 23 24 31 35 42 48 59-60-61 64 109-112 226-228-232 241
i like those a lot.
Hmm, I’m not really sure what to make of this series. What was the context you shot them in? Or was it purely for your own aesthetically pleasure?
I think they work in a set like this, because although the colourschemes shift they tie the separate photos together, like a transition.
*Suzan
I’m a little confused by your comment but I’ll do my best to respond. Basically the series is an experiment in a style of photography that I’ve been trying to refine since I’ve begun taking photos. Using long exposures to stretch and bend time, light, and colour I think is a wonderful way to create beautiful images. Also what I love specifically about this series is it’s created using the ambient light and movement from driving through the Himalaya mountains, the textures of the mountain side make wonderful stretched out piles of light, that aesthetic is mixed with the fluorescent lights and TV screens that littered the Indian towns we drove through that night, and to top it all off it was a monsoon thunderstorm and many of the shots have the silhouetted outline of trees and cities back lit by lightning strikes. Looking at the images I can still smell the wet air and cold mud of the ground. I laid in a wet bed in a bus soaked from head to toe with my camera extended out my open window.
-Ryan
Cool.
Really nice textures in there, and as always the light streaking is great. I especially like minimalist ones like 107 and 135, and ones where there are different vectors of motion (I especially like the composition in 110).
Also kind of captures the feeling of 14 hours of Himalayan bus ride… although to be fair you were a lot wetter than I was (thanks for that, by the way).