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Photographic Abstraction... Features and Vision
This topic that appears with this issue may be one of the most important topics that we have raised, as it constitutes a transformation of light art through shapes and colors, up to viewing and vision systems.
Despite my belief in this kind of creative artwork, I hesitated a lot before pushing this topic to the press for several reasons, the most prominent of which are: The abstract concept is essentially plastic-oriented.
This requires us to stop at every action of this nature, given the consequences that we will reap...
It is not possible to call our work abstract as easily as we utter this word, but we have to embody it in content. Any meaning and this requires us to re-read the topic more than once, in addition to that.
We have to move away from imitating the published images in order to avoid limiting the abstract material to what we have published because we will find at every moment or in every place something that embodies our abstract vision, especially since photographic abstraction is not subject to any systems or prior vision or to specific lenses and films, but rather it is the result of a quiet moment, spilled During which the power of expression and reflection of the vision in the form of subliminal aesthetic.
From here, we find ourselves facing an artistic stage that we will deal with with great seriousness, and that will require a lot of time and experiments before we become abstract in the full sense of the word.
Stopping at abstract photography, then, although we have presented it briefly and quickly, requires a more detailed view from us - and this is what we will work on later - and it requires those who wish to deal with it to more experiences and depth.
This is what is required of them and what I wanted to refer to before presenting a ready-made material to them.

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Flash presented by Saleh Rifai
See...and pictures

The vision extends... roam the depths of the scene... swim in the viewing angles in search of a frame that captures your thoughts waiting... the vision is touched by blur and the lens is wide, clear and clear, and a shudder runs inside you... the angle tells you and the distance is still separating
You stand far between feeling and seeing...
Trying to get closer...
The viewing angle is replaced by another, trying to find the element of beauty and creativity.
Take a look again...
At the moment of recording, the machine is ready, and it only has to translate your feelings.
The scene is part of the viewing as a whole, and maturity is integrated and sticks to the idea until it is translated
What are we filming? ...
Nothing...just a formation of my vision poured into my senses through the machine.
Vision, if we can comprehend it, is capable of dealing with the optical perspective, and we only need to stare and reflect to wander in the depths of the scene.
The components of life and what it contains of land, sky and water cannot be dealt with with its topics unless we feel and unless we look purely and clearly.
Unless we live the scene and its moment..
So let's look around... and ahead
Let's look up and down...
They are the dreamy moments of our imaginations
What are we filming?

Everything around us can be an image, rather a photographic painting.
The land and the colors of the soil, grasses, sea and land that it contains...
From the extension of springs and the flow of streams.. From our erect trees and their renewable leaves
To the dunes as far as looking at the rocks and their protrusions.. to the greatness of the monuments and their testimonies. .. passing through the greatness of the mountains .. and the streams of the valleys
All of this can be a painting in which feelings spill out to frame an integrated photographic work for us, and let us derive from the characteristics of these things our thoughts, so let us look up at the atmosphere, with what it carries and contains...
There is an integrated vision in the sky and an awakening of our emotions and feelings through the orange and gradient colors at sunset.
Let us look where the horizon embraces the formations of explosive clouds of all kinds and colors
Let's watch the rainbow publicly, catch its colors and embody them in an abstract nature.
Let us go through the thousands of birds and their flock formations.
Let's look around... and at other people's faces
In the innocence of children and their future...
In the face of a woman or a man.. in search of their aspirations and purposes.
Let us look constantly, but through the perspective of giving through living embodiment, clear vision, and the sincerity of our feelings.
Through our lens, let us realize that it is the third eye, capable of seeing and recording the smallest details. If we can direct and express.