Thoughtfactory: abstractions

This is an abstraction of the  old,  wooden Granite Island causeway at Victor Harbor in South Australia.  

The causeway  was in such a bad condition that it could not be repaired.  It  has been dismantled and replaced by a concrete one.  There are just a few pieces left at both the Victor Harbor and Granite Island ends. They -- the heritage remnants -- appear to function as viewing platforms. 

No doubt, many  photographers would say this  picture is not  an abstraction.  Others would point to the formal design of the picture and say that it is formalist but not even a weak abstraction. So I wrote a brief post on abstraction on the thoughtfactory website in an effort to open up a space for the possibility of contemporary photographic abstractions.

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This was made  on a recent  poodlewalk in the Adelaide parklands:

The area was the southern part of Victoria part though which South Park Lands creek runs through  The southern part, where we walked, w has been revegetated with open woodland. It's a good space  for a quick poodlewalk. 

This is an abstraction of a piece of driftwood lying on the Esplanade Beach at Victor Harbor.

I came across it on a recent  early morning  poodlewalk  with Kayla.