Without description you wouldn't be faulted to thinking this was created whole-cloth in a photo editing application but by the description as you can see it wasn't. So the questions are how and why. Let me address the latter first: why. Because only when you push your camera and yourself as a photographer can you become better. Clearly this isn't an image that the creators of my camera envisioned it would create but it did. I was out one day in a local forest looking to capture the feel of that quiet place but in the abstract. Fujifilm cameras using the Velvia film simulation render blazingly strong greens with many tones. Now the how. This is an extreme version of "dragging the shutter" or moving your camera using a slow shutter speed. In this case the shutter speed was 1/10sec and moving the camera upwards very quickly to retain the tree trunk on the right. an abstract but still reminiscent of a tree. In that long pause I captured a view of the forest that couldn't be seen by the naked eye.
By setting a weekly photography challenge like only taking abstracts, black-and-white or images using an overexposed flash can you grow. While much of what you capture will be deleted I promise a few gems will be saved.
Image: Summer foliage abstract created in camera in Velvia. Fujifilm X100T.
