I like them. Very original and creative thinking

did you make a mistake? The lens is 100mm and I love it. It has given me a new perspective on what I am shooting. Any change, any different view is a help for me. I just enjoy doing different things with my camera.

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The flower is actually smaller than my thumb nail. It is the bloom from a Spider plant. Shot hand held.

Hand held Macro

Thank you people. I just hope that the spots are not dust on my sensor. I never saw anything like that before and I hope never to see it again. I will check the area where I did the pictures. Funny but the spots don't show up on the other 10 images that I did that morning.

Yesterday I did a few shots with me Canon40d and my 100mm macro lens. In two of the shots there are jagged white lines near the top of each image. The other 9 images show nothing wrong.. What is my problem? How do I fix it? Thanks in advance I hope the lines show up in this format.

The lines are at the top of both images

I love that one

thanks guys, I love them all.

My caption is you look Grrrrrrrrate Baby.
This guy looks so happy that I think he must have a drivers license. Can anyone think of a really good and funny caption for this shot.

It is far from the worst thing. BUT when it is used senselessly, it is a horror. Improving photos is fine. Even in B&W we always dodge and burn in. Things that improve images are fine but I object to overkill.

I recognize it as a photo. I do like it. It is worth looking at. The stuff in the show was really bad. It just unnerved me to call that photography. I might be picky but at least even when I was doing weddings all my images were in focus and properly exposed.

Again, I wish to say that I am not against any form of art for the sake of art. I did not criticize any form of expression. I do, however question the intent of artists who use post processing techniques to produce images that I can't recognize as art or even photos. I don't think that calling them photography in any way, shape or form is justified. I wish that I had taken pictures of some of them to illustrate what I am talking about. I actually had to read the caption to find out that they have any relation to photography.

I agree with the idea of separate categories for abstract art in photo shows and contests. I think that to define what is just "fixing" an image and making something that is so bad that it is unrecognizable as a subject and a photo is
really hard to do, My thinking is that when I need to look at a photos caption to find out if it is a photo and what it is supposed to represent it just goes too far.

My question is still what is abstract photography. Is it photography when a 16x20 beautifully framed and matted thing that is too dark to recognize, is out of focus and has colors running in ways that defy logic. My reasoning is that in a show, the reason for the work is to sell it. I did not see any of the things that I object to with sale labels on them. Traditional photography and abstract photos that are recognizable as photos did sell. Am I wrong? I this just bad work or senseless work?

I'm almost 80 now and have been involved in photography since I was 15 years old, getting paid for my efforts most of the time. I go back as far as doing weddings with a Speed Graphic, cut film holders and #5 flashbulbs. I made commercial 8X10 contact prints in a printing frame by dodging and burning in areas with the use of cut up tissue paper below the printing frame. After I retired I entered my "fun work" in various juried art show and actually sold my artistic work. Today I went to a large art show that is run by a much respected artists group. I was shocked and truly surprised by the lack of quality of the things that I saw .Everything was over-corrected and photo-- shopped. Nothing was in focus. Color was not corrected, it was distorted. Images of buildings were bent and twisted. I need to ask why! Is this movement to abstract images a genuine part of photography. Is it art? Does it belong in a show with real photos?

I looked at about 25 different sets of images before I found yours. They are beautiful. Real works of art. thank you for sharing.