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Abstract Expressionism
A Member Challenge using the Minimal Editing rules.

Description
In the style of Aaron Siskind, one of the first photographers to combine what was known as "straight" photography (recording the real world as the lens "sees" it) with abstraction.

Extra Rules
For this challenge, you may rotate and crop your image. All other Minimal Editing Rules are in effect.

Submission Dates:
  Jan 9 2017 - Jan 22 2017

Voting Dates:
  Jan 23 2017 - Jan 29 2017

Submissions: 74
Disqualifications: 0
Votes: 4,156
Comments: 132

Average Score: 5.5089
Highest Score: 6.614
Median Score: 5.5926
Lowest Score: 4.1579


Results for Abstract Expressionism:
Challenge Results for Abstract Expressionism
unstable
by PennyStreet

1st place with an
average vote of 6.6140

Views: 1634 (110 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.707
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.375
Ports of Entry
by rooum

2nd place with an
average vote of 6.4464

Views: 1558 (111 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.452
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.429
Eyes of the seeing
by Judi

3rd place with an
average vote of 6.3793

Views: 1268 (108 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.442
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.200
Abstract Expressionism
by Lydia

4th place with an
average vote of 6.2982

Views: 1176 (100 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.342
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.188
headlines
by tate

5th place with an
average vote of 6.2241

Views: 1027 (95 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.286
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.063
Style of Siskind
by aircooledguy

6th place with an
average vote of 6.1964

Views: 740 (97 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.098
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.467
Border Line
by markwiley

6th place with an
average vote of 6.1964

Views: 539 (109 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.050
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.563
This image has been removed.
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 0.000
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 0.000
Princeton 11
by mefnj

8th place with an
average vote of 6.1754

Views: 629 (119 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.195
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.125
Romantic Notions of Betty Lou
by LanceW

9th place with an
average vote of 6.1228

Views: 457 (100 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.214
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.867
homage
by UrfaK

10th place with an
average vote of 6.1186

Views: 538 (103 during voting)
Votes: 59
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.023
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.375
"Take Me To Your Leader"
by Luciemac

11th place with an
average vote of 6.0893

Views: 302 (111 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.071
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.143
Tangled
by clickodak

12th place with an
average vote of 6.0545

Views: 394 (101 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.146
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.786
"Behind the curtain, in the pantomime"
by the_rkp

13th place with an
average vote of 6.0364

Views: 364 (98 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.975
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.200
Torn Blue Jeans
by kiwinick

14th place with an
average vote of 6.0000

Views: 272 (101 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.950
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.125

(o)))
(or the art of not saying much)


by mitalapo

15th place with an
average vote of 5.9825

Views: 338 (99 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.829
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.375
Disintegrating Future
by vawendy

16th place with an
average vote of 5.9643

Views: 547 (111 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.098
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.600
underfoot
by Manic

17th place with an
average vote of 5.9474

Views: 385 (103 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.881
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.133
Nature's Abstract
by illini75

18th place with an
average vote of 5.9464

Views: 404 (100 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.122
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.467
Danse macabre
by Sisto

19th place with an
average vote of 5.9455

Views: 284 (92 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.902
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.071
Becoming Something Other
by Les_Feck

20th place with an
average vote of 5.9273

Views: 434 (105 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.902
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.000
Elegy, 2017
by PenelopeK

21st place with an
average vote of 5.9259

Views: 277 (103 during voting)
Votes: 54
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.821
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.200
Castle Valley
by 2mccs

22nd place with an
average vote of 5.9057

Views: 302 (94 during voting)
Votes: 53
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.821
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.143
Peeling Away
by DanaS

23rd place with an
average vote of 5.8947

Views: 277 (109 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.954
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.714
homage to Clyfford Still
by tvsometime

24th place with an
average vote of 5.8621

Views: 375 (93 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.929
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.688
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation
by Waitingsilence

25th place with an
average vote of 5.8571

Views: 321 (94 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.878
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.800
traverse
by Neat

26th place with an
average vote of 5.7895

Views: 549 (96 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.762
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.867
Hope
by nam

27th place with an
average vote of 5.7818

Views: 234 (108 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.732
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.929
Concrete Self Portrait #113
by AlbanyDave

28th place with an
average vote of 5.7636

Views: 398 (112 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.900
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.400
no vacancy
by aberration

29th place with an
average vote of 5.7407

Views: 296 (96 during voting)
Votes: 54
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.875
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.357
flowchart
by herfotoman

30th place with an
average vote of 5.7368

Views: 295 (101 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.707
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.813
Kings Mill 17
by Marc923

30th place with an
average vote of 5.7368

Views: 300 (98 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.857
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.400
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Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 0.000
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 0.000
Layers of Forgot
by Bearded_dop

32nd place with an
average vote of 5.7273

Views: 291 (96 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.675
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.867
Brick wall
by GeorgesBogaert

33rd place with an
average vote of 5.7018

Views: 321 (94 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.585
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.000
Connected to the Grid
by RamblinR

34th place with an
average vote of 5.6667

Views: 317 (97 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.595
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.867
Thataway
by Yo_Spiff

34th place with an
average vote of 5.6667

Views: 281 (98 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.762
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.400
This image has been removed.
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 0.000
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 0.000
PG-1
by Bear_Music

36th place with an
average vote of 5.6607

Views: 291 (106 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.659
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.667
Nailing It Home
by westford

37th place with an
average vote of 5.6552

Views: 285 (94 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.791
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.267
The End- Beautiful friend
by Alex_Petrini

38th place with an
average vote of 5.5926

Views: 364 (100 during voting)
Votes: 54
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.725
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.214
raison d'ĂȘtre
by hahn23

39th place with an
average vote of 5.5714

Views: 276 (103 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.561
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.600
Invade the Intersection
by glad2badad

40th place with an
average vote of 5.5636

Views: 339 (96 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.634
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.357
Life Can Be Hard Sometimes
by GolferDDS

41st place with an
average vote of 5.5439

Views: 278 (97 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.571
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.467
For Those Who Have fallen
by Mond

42nd place with an
average vote of 5.5273

Views: 235 (95 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.350
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.000
Rubber band 10
by hajeka

43rd place with an
average vote of 5.4727

Views: 401 (102 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.400
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.667
stripes in red and white
by mariuca

44th place with an
average vote of 5.4182

Views: 244 (98 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.366
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.571
Munich 189
by bjoern

45th place with an
average vote of 5.4000

Views: 230 (93 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.300
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.667
Looking through a glass sculpture
by premalpatel

46th place with an
average vote of 5.3860

Views: 204 (95 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.326
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.571
The Wall
by Tumbleweed

47th place with an
average vote of 5.3393

Views: 264 (94 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.381
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.214
shore
by Tiberius

48th place with an
average vote of 5.3158

Views: 342 (100 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.349
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.214
Protest
by MeMex2

49th place with an
average vote of 5.2679

Views: 258 (105 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.317
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.133
Portstewart Strand
by Paul

50th place with an
average vote of 5.2414

Views: 322 (101 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.326
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.000
horizontal
by HUETH

51st place with an
average vote of 5.2364

Views: 243 (90 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.268
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.143
Corrugated
by giantmike

52nd place with an
average vote of 5.1786

Views: 192 (99 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.095
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.429
Aaron Foot
by nygold

53rd place with an
average vote of 5.1754

Views: 241 (100 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.262
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.933
Structure, Constructure
by riot

54th place with an
average vote of 5.1607

Views: 625 (95 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.171
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.133
Foiled
by jomari

55th place with an
average vote of 5.1552

Views: 375 (110 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.214
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.000
Escape
by NikonJeb

56th place with an
average vote of 5.1228

Views: 399 (95 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.930
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.714
Window
by ladpupmoe

57th place with an
average vote of 5.0926

Views: 221 (89 during voting)
Votes: 54
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.075
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.143
Siskind
by GinaRothfels

58th place with an
average vote of 5.0714

Views: 441 (90 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.000
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.267
"sees"
by mrbig65

59th place with an
average vote of 5.0000

Views: 209 (94 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.191
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.429
Circular Illumination
by MelonMusketeer

60th place with an
average vote of 4.9828

Views: 203 (100 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.023
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.867
Art
by Mona

61st place with an
average vote of 4.9107

Views: 239 (102 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.905
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.929
You've gotta be kidding me
by skewsme

61st place with an
average vote of 4.9107

Views: 343 (95 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.095
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.357
This image has been removed.
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 0.000
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 0.000
Not What She Used to Be
by Cyrilda

63rd place with an
average vote of 4.8182

Views: 220 (100 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.756
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.000
Drops
by dtremain

64th place with an
average vote of 4.8070

Views: 222 (93 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.691
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.133
Temptation
by sfalice

65th place with an
average vote of 4.7895

Views: 312 (97 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.738
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.933
L1060984-3 Lost
by TengLin

66th place with an
average vote of 4.7455

Views: 202 (96 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.683
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.929
knock
by jmritz

67th place with an
average vote of 4.7321

Views: 254 (90 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.714
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.786
know your own darkness so you can see
by grahamgator

67th place with an
average vote of 4.7321

Views: 383 (93 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.634
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.000
This image has been removed.
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 0.000
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 0.000
Support
by the99

69th place with an
average vote of 4.6727

Views: 182 (99 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.610
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.857
he is the man
by Abra

70th place with an
average vote of 4.5893

Views: 273 (99 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.488
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.867
WSJ - The trump era Dawns
by pgirish007

71st place with an
average vote of 4.5000

Views: 276 (113 during voting)
Votes: 56
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.333
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.000
L'Chaim
by posthumous

72nd place with an
average vote of 4.3818

Views: 352 (102 during voting)
Votes: 55
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.415
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.286
pink
by tnun

73rd place with an
average vote of 4.3103

Views: 320 (98 during voting)
Votes: 58
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.326
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.267
Irises in the Grass
by GeneralE

74th place with an
average vote of 4.1579

Views: 454 (91 during voting)
Votes: 57
Your Vote: N/A
Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 4.167
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 4.133


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