This week, our guest host Jude (Cornwall in Colours) leads the Texture challenge theme, “Texture is one method of bringing life to your photos.”, indeed.
Textures are usually described as smooth or rough, soft, or hard, and coarse of fine, matt or glossy… Texture in a photograph can add visual interest, highlight unique patterns, or may evoke emotions.
By zooming in on the details of the texture of a tree trunk, we can see a tree in a new way.
Beautiful texture of the pink grass (Hair-awn muhly):
Unique textures of aged rocks:
Colorful sea weed texture:
Textures make these pumpkins more interesting. 🙂
You can add textures to your photo through Photoshop:
Texture in arts is an important part of what gives it life.
Jude encourages us to “choose anything you like including art, nature, food, textiles, architecture or even common objects around the home.” We hope you will join us and share your photos. Click here to view her beautiful texture gallery. Please link to Jude’s original post and use the Lens-Artists tag.
Special thanks to Anne Sandler for last week’s fun and inspiring challenge. Thank you for sharing photos of wildlife close to your home. Next week, Tina will host for LAPC #227, so be sure to visit her site Travels and Trifles.
You zoom in and still maintain such integrity in the clarity in your photos, Amy. These are wonderful submissions. I like the undersea one in particular. 🙂
I love the abstracts, Amy. Honestly, I feel like I want to reach out and touch most of the elements in your photos. The goal is to visual texture. You nailed it. And while I know, in real life, I wish I could be near that moss covered tree, the tree stump was my favorite.
Beautiful examples, Amy! Love the tree bark and the moss, and how clever to choose the software textures as well! Pumpkins – of course – wonder why I didn’t think of it…Well done.
Excellent examples Amy 🙂 I especially love that first shot of the mossy ground and your use of a texture background in your flying birds edit – very creative!
You and Tina have set the bar incredibly high. As I said to her, I know exactly what to expect from your images if I were to touch the real things. Marvellous stuff!
Lovely post and beautiful textures Amy. I see we shared several of the same types. The good news is it’s all around us so we should see lots of variety this week. Love your seaweed and pumpkins especially
Lots of fabulous textures in these photos Amy. I love that close up of the tree bark, there is so much to see. And I had forgotten completely about adding textures with post editing software. I do vaguely remember doing that some years ago. Maybe over the winter months I will have another go at that. Thanks for your lovely post and all the different ways of illustrating textures.
Jude xx
Many thanks to you for guiding us to see the beauty of textures, Jude! I was surprised with the result after adding textures to this image. Appreciate your comment.
Loved the PumpKins
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You zoom in and still maintain such integrity in the clarity in your photos, Amy. These are wonderful submissions. I like the undersea one in particular. 🙂
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Thank you, Debra! There are many beautiful nature textures around us. Hope you enjoyed Thanksgiving. 🙂
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Love all your textures but I’m especially dying to find a tree trunk like that!
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Thank you for your comment! Thi s trunk is kind of different from others.
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Beauiful photos! I love the tree trunk ❤️
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Thank you, Sherry!
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I liked your close up of the bark, Amy! Beautiful.
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Thank you for visiting. The textures of this tree bark is different. 🙂
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I love the abstracts, Amy. Honestly, I feel like I want to reach out and touch most of the elements in your photos. The goal is to visual texture. You nailed it. And while I know, in real life, I wish I could be near that moss covered tree, the tree stump was my favorite.
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Thank you, Donna! I was happy to see the moss which we don’t get often at all. Happy to share these with you.
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I especially love these soft nature of these textures in your images, Amy!
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Thank you, John! Glad we get to share our selections through this theme. 🙂
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Beautiful pictures. I had never seen pink grass!
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Thank you! The pink grass turns into pink during fall season. 🙂
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Beautiful examples, Amy! Love the tree bark and the moss, and how clever to choose the software textures as well! Pumpkins – of course – wonder why I didn’t think of it…Well done.
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Thank you, AC! I’m glad I had a chance to share these texture images with you. 🙂
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So am I!
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Lovely photos, Amy! I’m partial to the pink grass. We have a lot of it in a nearby refuge. So pretty!
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I, too, love the pink grass. They turned into pink in fall here. 🙂
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Lovely!
Variety too!
Love the seaweed!
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Excellent examples Amy 🙂 I especially love that first shot of the mossy ground and your use of a texture background in your flying birds edit – very creative!
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Thank you, Sarah! The mossy ground was found in our local garden. The sky of the original bird image was just plain grey. 🙂
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So, so beautiful, Amy. The tree bark is my favourite, it has inspired me.
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Thank you, Sofia! This tree bark is different from others, glad you like it. 🙂
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Loved it. I might do a pattern based on it 🙂
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Beautiful photos. Love the moss and wood. I wouldn’t have thought of pumpkin textures!
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Thanks, IJ! There are many textures around, I probably need to pay more attentions to them. 🙂
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Nice mix of colors and texture on the pumpkin shot Amy. Really like the capture of the mossy hillside in your opener. Well done 🙂
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Thank you, Andy! Glad you like the pumpkins. The mossy hillside shows nice textures, I agree. 🙂
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Amazing textures Amy
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Happy you like these texture images, TT!
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Beautiful images, enhanced by the textures marvellously captured.
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Thank you for liking these. Fun to focus on textures!
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What a fabulous texture post Amy. Great examples 🙂
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Thank you, Brian! There are many textures to capture. 🙂
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I love all of these, Amy, but that seaweed really grabbed my attention. Texture and amazing color is a win-win.
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Thank you, Janet! I agree, the seaweeds are beautiful and different, and its texture is unique. 🙂
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Marvelous collection of textures Amy,
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Thank you, Anne! Happy to share. 🙂
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Amazing textures you got here!
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Thank you, Aletta! 🙂
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Your textures include a lot of brown, too, Amy! I love that bark! And that pink grass! All such lovely textures.
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Thanks you, Terri! The pink grass is lovely during this time of the year.
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Amy what a fantastic gallery of various textures. I of course love your close up of the mossy scene. 😀 😀
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Pumpkins never used to be this interesting, Amy. And I love your seaweed!
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You and Tina have set the bar incredibly high. As I said to her, I know exactly what to expect from your images if I were to touch the real things. Marvellous stuff!
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Thank you for you thoughtful comment, Margaret! It means a lot to me. So glad we can enjoy the beauty of nature through the theme. 🙂
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Lovely post and beautiful textures Amy. I see we shared several of the same types. The good news is it’s all around us so we should see lots of variety this week. Love your seaweed and pumpkins especially
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Thank you, Tina! We did share the same types. 🙂 Colors just begin to change here, but leaves are falling… hope to see autumn colors soon.
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Lots of fabulous textures in these photos Amy. I love that close up of the tree bark, there is so much to see. And I had forgotten completely about adding textures with post editing software. I do vaguely remember doing that some years ago. Maybe over the winter months I will have another go at that. Thanks for your lovely post and all the different ways of illustrating textures.
Jude xx
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Many thanks to you for guiding us to see the beauty of textures, Jude! I was surprised with the result after adding textures to this image. Appreciate your comment.
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Great textures Amy, I loved the way you showed us the various textures in one tree.
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Thak you, Anne! I’m lways encouraged to hear your comment. 🙂
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LOTS of texture! Love that carpet of green at the beginning. Great photos!
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Thank you, John! I, also, like the first image. 🙂
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