A New View: Abstract and Surreal Photography

The Task
Look at your artistic space in a new way and create abstract or surreal photographs, using the ABCs as guidelines if you do not normally shoot in this genre. Try to look for mundane things and make them unusual, exceptional, artistic, or otherworldly (example: create an abstract image by photographing your dog's fur in macro, create a surreal scene from your bedroom using lighting to affect the resulting photograph, etc).

The Timeline
Luckily, photography these days can be a pretty instant art. So in celebration of Abstract and Surreal week during Project Educate, A New View will only run for a week!
So get going and pull out that inspiration.
Start: Today
End: Midnight EST Saturday May 24

How to enter
Photographs must be submitted May 19 or later, and shot specifically for the contest. Sorry, this contest is only open to photography submissions. Submit your entry to deviantART in Photography - Abstract and Surreal - Abstract [or] Surreal and note me, ^opioid with a link to your entry.

Please title submission notes "A New View contest" or something similar that makes it easily identifiable to me as being for this contest

Judging
First round of judging is just me (eep!); however, the second round is all of you! The finalists will be put into a poll on my deviantART journal where you can all vote for your favorites over the course of next week. Winners will be announced Saturday May 31st.

and last but not least...
Prizes!
1st place - 6 month subscription, dA keychain, and dA stickers
2nd place - 3 month subscription, dA keychain or stickers
3rd place - 1 month subscription, dA keychain or stickers

All winners will also receive journal features of the winning entries.


Remember, only a week, so get shooting!
If you need inspiration in the meantime, come on over to #Abstractography on dAmn to chat live with other photographers sweet on abstract and surreal.

Still have questions? Just comment here, and I will do my best to answer ASAP!