"Soaring Away"
"Soaring Away" ©David A. Ziser I captured this image yesterday morning as were were sitting in Radio City Music Hall waiting for the Pace Commencement Ceremonies. It was the first time I was inside of the venue and was imm...
Beautiful Photographs of Patterns Seen from a Helicopter
Aerial photographer Stephan Zirwes shoots amazing images of patterns and repetition seen in landscapes while looking straight down from a helicopter. From his perspective, things like cars, shipping containers, and people blend together into abstract designs. Zirwes’ work reminds us a lot of Alex MacLean’s aerial photographs. Stephan Zirwes (via iGNANT) Image credits: Photographs by...
Ruined Polaroid Pictures as Abstract Art
While many photographers aim for technical perfection, photographer William Miller goes the opposite route. After “rescuing” an old and barely functional Polaroid SX-70 instant camera from a yard sale, he began taking advantage of its glitches by viewing the resulting photographs as abstract art. He states, The camera sometimes spills out 2 pictures at a...
Abstract Photos of Bullets Fragmented on Bulletproof Plexiglass
For her project “The Big Bang“, photographer Deborah Bay captured macro photographs of plexiglass sheets that had various types of firearms fired at them. After having professional law enforcement officers fire bullets into the glass, she brought the sheets into a studio and “shot” them again with a Contax 645 and a 120 macro lens....
Abstract Images of Famous Landmarks Created by Blending Snapshots
“The Collective Snapshot” is a series by Spanish photographer Pep Ventosa (previously featured here) that consists of abstract images of famous landmarks created by blending together dozens of ordinary snapshots. His goal is to “create an abstraction of the places we’ve been an the things we’ve seen”, and to create images that are both familiar...
"Ghost of Museums Passed"
"Ghost of Museums Passed" © David A. Ziser I captured this image during our visit yesterday to Duncan Phillips Art Museum in Washington, DC. As you can see I was using a very wide-angle lens – my Sigma 12–24mm lens on my new...
Abstract Images Created by Tearing and Layering Photographs
Raleigh, North Carolina-based artist Scott Hazard creates abstract images by tearing shapes into multiple prints of the same photograph, and then stacking the images on top of each other. He uses the technique to create things such as smoke, clouds, and portals in walls. He calls the project “Photo Constructs”. Photo Constructs by Scott Hazard...
"Houston Blues"
"Houston Blues" ©David A. Ziser I’ve been going through hundreds of images for my new program on composition and stumbled upon this photograph yesterday. I made this image while traveling back home from Cabo, Mexico about 2 year...
Trippy Footage from a Digital Camera Mounted to an Electric Drill
Just in case you’ve always been wondering what it would look like to record footage with a camera attached to a spinning electric drill, French product designer Oscar Lhermitte did just that. The resulting footage is quite trippy, and would be a pretty unique way of capturing abstract photographs — as long as you don’t...
Beautiful Mosaics of Trees Photographed Across Time
Photographer Noel Myles has been working for the past 15 years on “still films” of trees across the countryside of eastern England. He originally created platinum/palladium prints of the trees around the year 2000, and then photographed the trees a decade later using color film. He then combined pieces from the different photos into single...
