Amazing Flickr Group Devoted to Taking Screenshots Looking Up from Second Life’s Virtual Water Bodies! Here’s Some Beautifully Abstract Examples

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

I am a fan of Second Life-themed Flickr groups. They reveal obsessions and nothing gets the creative juices flowing like an obsession. 

One particularly surprising and beautifully maintained group collects underwater pictures, not pictures of folks swimming around underwater, but pictures shot upward toward the non-watery world, the dry world filtered through the lens of the water. Could there be a more intriguing obsession? 

Check it out: Second Life – Underwater Looking Up. This picture above from Cat Mistwalker is extraordinary. The water makes everything abstract,  but this allows us to see the abstraction and imagine what it is, though. 

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Xanna Ziskey is the group founder and manager. Here “Autumn from Under Water” is stunning. The leaves look like metallic copper. It makes me think of a hammered copper sheet. The intense blue has no ripples, which makes the copper even more intense. 

Callie Mocha’s “Underwater” seems like fire and floodlights. It’s beautiful. It’s trees, but it seems like a fire.

I love abstract pictures and with Second Life – Underwater Looking Up almost everything becomes an abstract. Spend some time going through the pictures and then think of those scenes from a movie where someone pompously lectures about what a modern picture signifies, preferably to the artist. 

All images copyright the respective photographers. 

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Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.