It's In The Mail (Box)

Influenced by something I saw on Instagram. 
We are all influenced by what we have seen and I often wonder if we started with a blank slate, where would we go. Very heady. 

And that brings up the influences that we see in the Abstract Challenge and how many of you get a tip or two. Tomorrow is Abstract Thursday and tag-able with AT18.
As mentioned yesterday: On Sunday the Digital Photography School people who have a great website and all kinds of photo related affairs published an article by Eva Polak. "Five techniques for creating impressionist or abstract photography". Article.
I think Eva has been following the Abstract Thursday challenges for the past 17 weeks!!
Her list is:
Shapes, patterns & textures.
Reflections.
Defocus.
Panning.
Zoom.
That covers about 95% of what you have all been doing. A good article. Ms. Polak and I somewhat share one thing, as I am part Polish, however abstract you want to connect the polka dots here.