Shattered Glass Abstract by TwoPynts

Photography • Photo Manipulation • posted on Jul 25, 2007

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"Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves." ~ William Davenant "Meditation is the soul's perspective glass." ~ Owen Felltham "An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return." ~ Georg Lichtenberg "People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk." ~ Stephen King

Inspired by Doug's Smashed Windshield Abstract 3, I decided to try something similar with a photo I took on Monday. This is some shattered glass I found on an old, overgrown parking lot near an industrial area, with water condensing on the glass from beneath. I cropped and mirrored the photo and did some other minor postwork to achieve what you see here. I know what I see -- what do you see? ------

Thank you for your watery comments on my last upload, Lily Leaves ----- Pentax Optio S5i & PhotoshopCS. (968) Boca Raton, Florida, USA 2007 Sponsored by: Kramer Kreations

Comments (40)

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jo3d

3:13PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Superb! Original.

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Janiss

3:15PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Such marvelous textures and colors... a great abstract very graphic Kort!

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awjay

3:18PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

cool image

visualpoetry72

3:25PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

I see a moth. Please send the prize for the first correct answer!! Bye the way, a cool image.

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odie

3:25PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Symmetrically lovely!

MimiSoleil

3:27PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

That is great. I hope post some more experiments like this

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mansco

3:28PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Splendid textures... a very lovely abstract ;O)

Traligill

3:41PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

I like this very much!! superb textures and beautiful subtle colour.

MrsLubner

3:57PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

I see a fantastic abstract! I absolutely love what you have done here. Excellent! Pure enjoyment to look at.

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Fred255

4:04PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

That's glass! how odd! Cool photo

wannes

4:04PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Excellent work!!!!

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Margana

4:08PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Oooh, is this like a Rorschak kinda thingy? Hmmmm...I see a tunnel and a train...lol. Nah. I see an insect, actually. Cool work, Kortalouche. I can see how the other image inspired this and you pay great tribute to it with this.-M :^)

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mamabobbijo

4:23PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

A from above view of some sort of aircraft, perhaps an x-wing but it's been a while. Very cool though.

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mark.spooner

4:42PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

An excellent abstract piece of work!

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ICM_photo

4:42PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Awesome! Open visual.....a bug. :)

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zoren

5:01PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

structured chaos? nice shot

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Radlafx

5:32PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Weird but wonderful. Looks like a mutant crab.

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jocko500

5:36PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

super looking bug. maybe a butterfly look to it. cool postwork

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jif3d

5:37PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

I see a dancing bug doing the dance of the glass shard ! Interesting manipulation and capture, well done ! ~Cheers~ :o)

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auntietk

5:54PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Wow - Very cool! I thought of Doug as soon as I saw your thumbnail. Awesome work on this! I have no idea what it looks like, but it's very cool.

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Cosme..D..Churruca

5:56PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Visually and made pefect !

ARTWITHIN

6:09PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

I see multiple figures (at least 4), like a totem on the back of a flying bug that looks to have been crossed with a frog. This is incredible! I love these type of images and what comes from the effect. Beautiful shapes and images within images. Truly excellent photo art. Hugs, Suzanne

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lizzibell

7:42PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Nice work....

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unstrung65

7:53PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

-- very cool Kort ! --- pretty soon everybody will be doing these smashed glass abstracts -- perhaps it will become the very next 'phase' - ( after Donovan's 'electrical banana' ) ......but , if I'm honest ,here - it reminds me of a 'bug' monster movie I saw in the 50's --with a giant preying mantis wrecking havoc on civilization -- either that or looking through one of those cylindrical kaliedoscopes....nice work !

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goodoleboy

7:57PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Great composition employing imagination and mirrored postwork. Lots of weird textures at work here. My kind of stuff, if I can ever remember to get around to it. Okay, I see the top view of an advanced jet fighter, with Star Wars wings and canards up at the nose section. Either that or the configuration is an exotic crystallized or fossilized flying insect.

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npauling

8:19PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

An amazing capture and I like your postwork. Lovely textures with the look of a fractal.

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Burpee

9:10PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Fantastic!!!! This is awesome...what a cool idea and it turned out so well!!

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sharky_

9:24PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Interesting work. Look good to me. Aloha

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gunsan

10:29PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

The symmerty and the colors make this a treasure to looks at.

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OldHippieKeyboard

11:14PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

I see a Chinese crab-man with weapons... (OK, I don't even want to know what Hermann Rorschach would think of that.) Very nice way to turn broken glass into art. Bravo!