I don’t usually claim to be a real artsy type – my photos tend to lean towards the distinctly real end of the spectrum. That being said, I’m also a fan of Tony Sweet’s work. Would it be that I could swing a trip to one of his classes, but were I to have that same money, I’d probably invest in the same singh-ray filters that he (purportedly) uses.

That being said, the picture below is directly inspired by a technique he mentions in his Visual Literacy: Photography Workshop DVD.  It’s pretty simple: set your camera to a slow shutter speed and sweep the camera in a direction.  In this case, I went from top to bottom, and it came out with a nice abstractionist painterly effect.

The glade behind our house, a painterly abstract