Admin post: brainstorming for the next apertures

[eruthros]

The "Lines and Patterns" concrete aperture and the "Growth" abstract aperture will close this upcoming Monday, when we'll open two new apertures! This is another brainstorming-for-prompts post: we're looking for both concrete and abstract prompts that we'll turn into two polls on Sunday.

So, what sort of prompts would you all like to see for the next Apertures? If you have ideas, please drop them in the comments below! And feel free to suggest things that you've suggested before, to suggest things that you don't have catchy terms for, or to suggest things without deciding whether they're for the concrete or abstract aperture.

This is also reminder to post "Lines and Patterns" photos that you have taken in the previous two weeks if you have not already done so, and to use the rest of the weekend to take some more if you want!

Comments

Asking me to brainstorm may be dangerous.... :D

[kyrielle]

What comes to mind immediately as things I think would be fun to start from....

• Excitement
• smile
• macro
• animals (or some specific animals, ie birds or cats or the like)
• water
• sky
• clarity
• path/paths/pathways
• round
• landscapes
• food

I could keep going but I suspect I've already put more than enough down for one brainstorming post.

Re: Asking me to brainstorm may be dangerous.... :D

[eruthros]

round (or other shapes!) could be very neat! so could food.

Re: Asking me to brainstorm may be dangerous.... :D

[meloukhia]

Heh, you beat me to 'food.' I was also thinking 'bitten' or 'eaten' which leave some room for play.

-Interiors

-Things that go bump

[eruthros]

Some things I thought of:

communication or text (one's more abstract, one's more concrete)
decay/falling down/collapsing sorts of things -- like the opposite of growth, I guess, but I dunno how to put it
something to do with contrast, qualities of light, light/darkness sorts of things

[darkemeralds]

There's an existing group on Flickr whose great idea I wouldn't mind borrowing: Fences!

Similar single-concept, concrete terms that could yield interesting photographic results:

Walls
Barriers
Steps
Squares or triangles
Windows, reflections, mirrors, glass
Roads, streets, paths, trails

[spydielives]

Gazing into the remains of my coffee cup... what about:

Solid / Fluid / Gaseous