Michael:
If you start with an OOF image and blend it, it can go into the bokehgraphy section - I think you are going to have to double post some of yours, we don't want to miss them
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Since I got my lensbaby I'm realizing that there have been very few threads that focus (that word again :deadhorse
on using these various techniques for moving toward abstraction, but starting off with a genuine photographic image. I've been amazed at the creativity expressed in the images in the bokeh thread.
I think that many of us photographers have this lurking desire within us to go abstract. I remember when I was a kid getting my first camera and marveling at those circular highlights when shooting the sea, into the sun.
Keith