/ˈsnæp.ʃɒt/Lens Artist Challenge #363: Virtual Scavenger Hunt
This week in the Lens-Artists Challenge we’re on a Scavenger Hunt. Our host for the week, Anne from Slow Shutter Speed, asks, ‘How many of you venture out for our weekly photo challenges? Or do you hunt through your archives? … So, this week, I challenge you to a virtual scavenger hunt!’ For her Challenge, Anne listed 20 options and invites us to do ‘a deep dive into your archives, going back as far as you want to find the items [on the list] … Please find at least five images, but no more than 10, and just one image from each suggestion’.
Something with a pattern
The featured image of this post features something with a pattern. In this case, the surface of a house plant with green and white leaves. Here, I’ve photographed it with the Olympus Camedia C-100 digicam with a failing sensor, and introduced some intentional camera movement (ICM) into the image.
Something with water in it
A few years ago I took a series of close-up photographs of various drinks with ice cubes in them. Sometimes, with suitable lighting or coloured filters behind the glasses, this produced some wonderful abstract images. Incidentally yes, I did finish the drink after taking the photos.
Something rectangular
Although this may not look like a rectangle, but it is in fact the corner of a rectangular balcony on the side of a building. My intention here was to create a series of close-up images of buildings where the abstracts were created by the light falling upon the structure.
Something with a bumpy texture
Another in my series of abstract structures, this is actually the corner of a building. In this instance you can see the rough stucco texture of the outside of the building.
Something with a soft texture
This might not look like a soft texture, but it’s actually the surface of the quilt cover from the bed photographed in close-up. What I have then done is glitched the image by a technique known as pixel sorting. Although I have a specific program that can pixel sort an image, in this case I’ve taken a short-cut and used the GlitchLab smartphone app.
Something glass
This is a nighttime image of the patterned glass of our kitchen window. Outside, in the garden, can be seen the lights on the patio.
Something with a design
This is a close-up of a piece of street art in Aveiro as photographed through the Vortoscope, a triangle of mirrors that when viewed through fracture an image. It was pioneered by the American artist Alvin Langdon Coburn in the early twentieth century as a part of the English Vorticist movement. Vorticisim, ‘rejected landscapes and nudes in favour of a geometric style that was much more abstract‘ and the Vortoscope was Langdon Coburn’s response to this. The name Vortoscope was coined by the poet Ezra Pound, a contemporary and friend of Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the image it produced as a Vortograph.
Zig-zag lines
This is what I like to call a ‘glitch in the wild’. It’s actually a close-up of the TV screen during a breakdown in service. They don’t happen very often, but sometimes we can get some lovely glitch effects from the digital broadcast. In this case, almost reminiscent of the zig-zag patterns of old analogue televisions.
Something circular
This is a simply a close-up of a piece of bubble wrap through a coloured photography filter.
Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.
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