I adore you, Pat. You are always my champion. However ... ... ... Any photographer worth their salt, uses a photo processing app.

Any digital dslr photographer who shoots in RAW (which I do) will touch up a photo, even if it is to just convert it to a 'picture file', straighten it, or crop it. Lightroom and Photoshop are today what the darkroom was when film still existed for everyone. Even Ansel Adams touched up his photography during darkroom processing.

If I shot in film (which I wish I could afford) I could get this effect - in the darkroom. Today, though, modern digital photographers will use tools to convert a RAW file to .JPG, add effects like this, for extra story telling. I learned this technique from my 52Frames Photography Challenge. There are professional photographers that participate in this weekly self-challenge that do stuff like this all of the time. The major taboo is using AI to generate/enhance a photographic image. Absolutely NO AI.

As to the effect itself: "The Adamski effect owes its name to its creator, Josh Adamski (Tel Aviv 1948), a photographer who defines his work as a photo impressionism himself. Through blur techniques and creating the illusion of movement, his images adopt an abstract tone, often dreamlike and pictorial. His style has become popular and it is increasingly common to find images imitating his technique."

I highly recommend even hobby photographers research old photography techniques and famous photographers to expand your knowledge base. It's fascinating discovering new (old) photography.