autofantasia's photos with the keyword: abstracts

Well, not quite! I took this shot of some Crocosmia in our front garden, which has yet to flower with this week's Sunday Challenge in mind. In the end though due to the winds we've been having I found it impossible to get a clean, sharp shot of it that I was happy with so I went with the pine cones instead. However, with a bit of tweaking here and there I think I've managed to make something out of it that has some appeal. I'll probably try taking more shots of them in calmer conditions, but for the moment I thought I'd share this one.

For this week's Sunday Challenge , for which the theme is abstract in nature . I spent some time earlier in the week walking around a local wood looking for things to shoot, which is where I collected these freshly dropped pine cones. And although some of the shots I took out and about were okay I eventually decided to create an image in my back garden using the pine cones. Fairly minimal processing on this one overall apart from tweaking the levels and a smidgen of sharpening.