One Word Sunday: Texture
Tag: texture
I’ve Picked All Five
We have a public bathing area at our local lake but youngsters like to go swimming in a little cove where there are no regulations, locally called “Bay of Pigs”.
Louis and Charly: handsome, debonair and the dandies of the neighbourhood.
Look at the size of that dog! Isn’t he gigantic?!
The texture of an often-pruned grapevine, wood, moss and lichen.
A window with one eye open.
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One more wrinkle
I misread the title as “the textures of your world” and I wanted to say that I sometimes feel withered and shrivelled and wizened like these (possibly quite young) tortoises and turtles. I think I just leave that here.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: The textures in your world.
Barking good
Follow this sign on the bark of the trees and you are on the “Burgensteig”, a 120km hiking trail between Darmstadt and Heidelberg.
Oh-oh!
Squirrel like trees and love rough barks.
Crisscross patterns, climbing plants have been swallowed by the bark of this tree.
Close up of a tree bark.
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A bark and a living texture on top.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Texture. More textured photos can be found here.
Texture
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Texture.
animal, vegetable, and mineral
I am not a modern major general but:
animal & vegetable
vegetable & plastic
very vegetable
vegetable & mineral
mineral
vegetable
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: texture.
The stone pattern is on a Roman pillar found in a villa rustica dating back to the Romans in the Odenwald.
More textured photos are only a click away.
We call them plated toads
The first two photos are of a giant tortoise, the next ones of two yellow-bellied sliders (a land and water turtle). I only noticed the spider on the underside of the jaw when I had the enlarged photo on my pc screen.
This is for Black & White Sunday: texture. You will find more photos for this challenge here.
Gras – corn – trees
The Daily Post asked for a picture that showed layers of depth, density, and texture. I thought this cornfield from the Odenwald fitted the bill.
You can see others’ interpretation here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/layered/
Contrasts in light and texture
Cee’s Compose Yourself has turned to black and white photography this month.
Textures can make a black and white photo work. Furs and feathers of animals can thus show off in a black and white picture.
In this picture, the different textures of the individual light feathers and the skin of the dark comb and wattle are effectively juxtaposed.
This pony stands out from the blur of the background. It works well in monochrome because of the colour differences in the coat and mane but equally because the longer, curlier hair of the mane creates a different texture as shorter coat. The background stays a ablur.
The detail of this sculpture is completely different as it is made up of hard metal.
Yet it works because the roughness and flaking of the material creates an interesting texture that becomes visible in the monochrome.
Three different textures dominate in this picture – the polished plastic of the spectacle frames next to the soft smoothness of the skin next to the frizzy hair accentuate this portrait.
The same effect can be seen here – smooth skin next to hair. I find that often portraits work better in black and white, they can be much more flattering to the subject.
And here a last example of difference in texture, again facial hair but it is juxtaposed with the shiny silver beads.
Contrast can of course also come from light differences. In the above pictures this was a visible component as well but it is more pronounced in the following ones.
The bright white bench surrounded by dark, almost black foliage. Contrast doesn’t come much harder than this.
The colour version of this photo shows off the newer, lighter green gingko leaves against the older, darker ones. It works well in green but I think is more dramatic in black and white.
This gerbera also contrasts the front petals with the dark stem and leaves but has shades of grey to offer as well.
This filled tulip stands out against the dark background but the leaves show contrast in themselves – the grey feathery details almost look as if drawn with a thin brush.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: #23 Black and White: The Basics
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