Abstracts from Palouse, Washington

I recently took a workshop with Art Wolfe in the Palouse Region of Washington state. For those of you who are familiar with Art, you can probably guess why I was so excited to take a workshop with him. I expected we’d spend most of our time photographing landscapes – so you can imagine my surprise when on the first morning of the workshop, Art lectured on abstract expressionism and how we can look for abstracts when we’re photographing other subjects. And then our first photo shoot of the workshop wasn’t photographing landscapes – but instead we stopped in the town of Palouse with the assignment of looking for and finding abstract subjects to photograph.

I had a blast photographing abstract subjects – so I thought I’d share a few of my abstract photos with you today.

Is this a photo of a fabric rose? or the face of a lion?

An iron grate? or a metal tree sculpture?

A pile of plates? or a building from the Jetsons cartoons?

An old curtain behind a textured window? or something else?

Shadows on the cement? or ?????

Peeling paint? or an eerie landscape on another planet?

 

After a wonderful lunch at the Green Frog Cafe, we headed off to photograph more abstracts in a group of old cars. I’ll share some of those photos soon.

But in the meantime, I’m curious – what do you see in my photos? Let me know in the comments below.