Rules
Photo must be your own work
Photos can be digitally edited
Most kudos wins
Winner announced on Monday the 14th
Winner chooses next theme
Please put spiders in spoiler boxes 
@boris1gary wrote:
I have forgotten how to put a photo in the spoiler box? my last entry is empty.
Can't get any more minimalist than that. 🙂
@lind9650 wrote:A lot of the pictures I don't understand without an explanation of what the Minimalist represents in the picture.
Erica
I have read a few different pages on minimalism photography on the internet.
I think this is the easiest to undertand click here
This is another good page click here
And as Cosmo said, google minimalism photography IMAGES.
The way I interpreted the style is it's about one element. If your eye is drawn to the subject and doesn't wander around the photo looking at other stuff than you've got it right.
I used colour to draw the eye to the peg on the clothes line. It's red, the rest of the photo is in black and white.
I used texture to draw the eye to the frangipani stem, the background is a plain colour
I used space to highlight the power pole
I used a blurry background to nake the crepe myrtle flower stand out
I used colour and pattern to capture the eye in the shipping container pic.
As always, the theme is just a prompt. You can interpret it anyway you want. A few of the artyfarty type will try Minimalism as an art form (this is what I challenge myself to do) , most will take a picture of something that has reminded them of the prompt word (might be a string bikini on wet sand, a few peas left on the dinner plate, piano keyboard) and this is what I challenge you to do. I love the "saw this on the way to work and thought of this thread" pics. The photos that usually win are the ones that strike a cord in the viewers, and they are rarely the artyfarty photos 
So keep them coming, alot of people, lurkers included, enjoy this thread.
@imastawka wrote:Erica, as much as I love your posts, I'm at a loss to figure out how your
photos are your own work, as stated in the rules, when you seem to be
the subject of nearly all of them. The one with the mirror, although very
funny is just c & p from Ikea. Yet it has 6 kudos.
Am I missing something?
Am I not reading the rules correctly?
The photos I posted are scans of real photos. I do use developed photos for my Family Albums that I am making for my grandchildren. Nothing is safe on computers, but real hand written recordings will outlast generations and have a special meaning.
Sorry about the confusion. In future I'll keep strictly to the rules.
The IKEA mirror is so funny, I just wanted to add it for a laugh. Did not think anyne would take it seriously.
Erica
p.s. people kudos stuff coz they like it, or it's funny. Even if the mirror entry had the most amount of votes it wouldn't be awarded the winner because it obvioulsy isn't a photo. I try and make sure I don't count invalid entries in the final tally, and if I do get it wrong someone lets me know pretty quickly
this is good guide to minimalist photography. But basically its sparse and has one particular theme so as said up there someowhere. Your eye sees the one image and doesnt have to search for anything else
FOR EXAMPLE~~~~NOT AN ENTRY~~~~
the B&W image is just that with the interest in the light and dark. The red one is a busy minimalist pic. The seat tells the story with the texture of the wall to attract interest
now i feel i have to explain my pics, my mermaid is pretty obvious, the pic of my magic lotions and potions i chose because the packaging is minimalist (i think it is, anyway) and the garden dragon, well he hasn't moved in years so he lives a very minimalist life.
@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:
I hadn't even noticed that it was a B&W photo. I thought it was a dull day. I kudo-ed the lone spring of the peg.
DEB
A minimalist home, no extraneous furniture. Wish I could live like that.
I had forgotten that I had an app on my iPhone that makes only part of a photo in colour. I don't know what I did with it.
This is one I just found on my phone. It would be good if I could really do that to his head sometimes
Not an entry because it's not minimalist.
I always check my purse before I shop. This is the minimal contents today, 15cents and some dust. 🙂
