I debated whether to place this image in the landscape topic, but realized it would possibly clash with the prevailing images there. And since doing a search and not finding a topic where abstracts were covered, I thought starting a new topic would be the best way to go.

And I am also prompted by receiving a mailing yesterday from Howard Bond announcing his latest portfolio, Enigma, which consists of ten of his abstract photographs. Surely, there are others here who at least dabble occassionally in doing abstracts, either with 'straight' shots, or in heavy manipulation of an original?

I'll start it off with this landscape where I heavily 'abused' the saturation, contrast and brightness features in my scanning software to give it an abstract look.

The original is from a 4X5 Ektachrome 100 plus transparecy, moderatly cropped. And I am open to critique on this.