Photo Randy Vanderveen, near Kleskun Hills Park Prairie croci stand straight during a short break in the wind on a very breezy May afternoon. The wild flowers are among the first to bloom in the Peace each year.

Rycroft, Alberta, 12-05-01 Cranes unload the sails for wind turbines from a rail car and transfer it to a truck at the Rycroft rail yards May 1. The Rycroft yard has been busy all spring unloading sections of wind turbines and storing them in a nearby field so they can be transported to their final destination, a wind farm near Tumbler Ridge, BC later this spring. The large turbines will provide renewable energy for the BC Hydro power grid. The sails each occupy two flat-bed rail cars when being transported by train. (Photo: Randy Vanderveen photography)

While photography is often the art form with the most realism, the photographer can make things a little more abstract forcing his or her audience to slow down and think about what is pictured.

This can be done in camera without resorting to filters in Photoshop .

One of the simplest ways is to shoot tight using reflections. Here are some examples taken during a recent holiday with my wife, Cheryl, while in Seattle, WA.

Photo Randy Vanderveen, Seattle, WA Reflections of other office towers in the windows of a downtown building in Seattle.

Photo Randy Vanderveen Seattle, WA A tight crop of windows without any sense of their surroundings provides a different view.

Photo Randy Vanderveen, near Kelowna, B.C. A tight shot of the trestles on a bridge on the former Kettle Valley Railroad KVR through Myra Canyon part of the Trans Canada Trail that runs through the Okanagan in B.C.'s southern interior.