I'm working on posts for my knowledge base and my path will be discussing how to teach photography.
To that end, I did not have the time or opportunity to go to some place grand and glorious to "do photography" today, so I borrowed an assignment from my repertoire. I hope you caught on to the sarcasm in the first clause.
I have challenged students to find art in the mundane and I always teach a holistic, free form approach to composition before I dive into exposure and that before formal composition training because it is the emerging photographer's interest that makes diving into the craft worthwhile for them, not the arcane knowledge of the exposure triangle et.al.
If I had a class currently, I'd challenge them to go out, find something mundane, and represent it artistically.
PS: I love abstract images a lot. LOL I'd share what I think is my best one in a while, but it was shot with a Nikon FM.
Taking my own assignment to heart, I drove my car through the car wash and did a few shots with my R100 and the 28mm RF pancake lens, my "cheap thrills" rig.
The images have slight added saturation and contrast, but the car wash is a neon kaleidoscope of abstract fun.
Have fun and see what you can see in the mundane moments of life.
