Abstracts Anonymous

I tend to cringe at the idea that my photographic abstractions might look like mistakes, or amateurish, or seem like I'm just trying to play with a lame image to make it more "interesting". I try to always keep those three things in mind as a cautionary checklist, so as to make sure that my images don't look like that. Which means that I toss out a lot. Which is fine, because it is actually quite hard to make a successful abstract photograph. There is one final thing that I typically try to do with abstracts, and that is making sure that there is at least some little part of the image that is in some way recognizable. I like to throw the viewer a bone— because I know that if there is at least something of relatable interest to zero in on, the rest will follow...