Lens Artist Challenge #363: Virtual Scavenger Hunt
Lens Artist Challenge #363: Virtual Scavenger Hunt
This week in the Lens-Artists Challenge we're on a Scavenger Hunt. (https://annegeephoto.com/2025/08/30/lens-artist-challenge-363-virtual-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'. You can find the full list on her blog post here (https://annegeephoto.com/2025/08/30/lens-artist-challenge-363-virtual-scavenger-hunt/)
Something with a pattern
Something with water in it
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.
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.
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.
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 cool shadow:
This is simply the shadow cast on the kitchen wall through the patterned glass of the kitchen door.
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' (https://boshamgallery.com/blog/28-what-is-a-vortograph-the-world-s-first-truly-abstract-photographs-were-made/) 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.
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.
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 (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.
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