BK; Response to post on "Abstraction". To continue on from just discussing photography that is purely abstract below I wanted to give examples of my own photographs that combine the concept of abstraction with reality...

The idea of "abstracted reality" or just simply the mixing of the element of abstraction with reality is demonstrated in this photograph by the way only half of the subject in the image can be identified.

Here, the element of the shadows through the window abstracts to appear of the light and the windows, mixed with the identifiable pattern in the wallpaper and the components that are framing the window.