This week’s Sunday Stills Photography challenge is all about texture. Textures occur both in nature and in human-made materials, and it all around us. A random photo of a mundane item can yield extraordinary textures you might not have noticed with just the naked eye.
In texture photography, it’s all about patterns, colors and depth, and every single detail of a texture plays a significant role in the overall perception of the photograph.
This photo of Aero laying on my bed shows the contrast in textures of his cocoa-brown fur against the soft textiles of the bed linens.
In this image captured at our local elementary school, I love the textures of the flags hung on the fence.
Texture can appear both in macro photography and in landscape photography.
Today I have the pleasure of sharing two photos by Molly from Shallow Reflections. She mentioned Maine has its peak Autumn colors now and graciously sent me several photos to use!
I love the textures she captured in this garden gnome, not only in the carving’s materials, but in the surrounding garden. Totally serendipitous she sent me this photo full of texture…
Molly also sent me this stunning Autumn image of trees reflected in a lake. I’m sure the live view showed the textural contrast against the reflected two-dimensional view of the trees.
I’m submitting Molly’s beautiful tree image for this week’s Sunday Trees.
And for Dawn’s weekly feature Festival of Leaves.
Here is one of my own Autumn textures to add:
Textures can also appear in music, food, writing, the list goes on.
How will you interpret “texture” this week? Please link to this post and add to the link-up!
The autumn image from Maine is of course, stunning, but yours is so artsy! Thanks for linking up.
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Thank you, Dawn, all that credit goes to Molly. It will be weeks before we we get that kind of color ☺
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Yes, it is early here too.
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These are terrific Terri – love those autumn colors especially. I’m linking my Lens-Artists post this week. All of the photos were edited by applying software textures to the originals 🙂 https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/lens-artists-challenge-15-ch-ch-ch-changes/
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Oh that’s great, Tina, I’ll be over soon to check it out!
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How lovely! I have more than one thought about this, but here’s the contribution for now: https://naamayehuda.com/2018/10/14/as-above-snow-below/ (yeah, I added it to the link-a-think-thing … I just copy it here). Na’ama
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I love all your photos featuring texture, Terri. The photo of Aero is a great representation of texture as is the one of the flags. And thank you for including two of my pictures in this weeks’ Sunday Stills. I was so excited to see which photos you chose from the ones I sent you and I was not surprised about the gnome. I was positive you would use that one! We’ve just passed our peak foliage so I’m glad I got the shots I did last weekend. It’s still beautiful but we had a lot of wind last week so lots of leaves have fallen.
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Thanks, Molly, and huge thanks for letting me use your gorgeous photos! Most of our trees in Northern California are still green! Everyone is raving about them your photos, so now you might have to enter a photo challenge or two 😉
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Did I tell you I’m going to retire? My last day of work is 11/2, so maybe then I can do some photo challenges. I would really like to do it!
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completely retire? How fabulous! You definitely have a knack, Molly. Can’t wait to read what you have in store for us if you write about your retirement!
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Nice selection of photos. I like the flags and their chunky but soft texture. Here’s my offering: https://grahamsisland.com/2018/10/14/moss-on-bamboo/.
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Fabulous topic and pictures, Terri. I joined in this week.
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Oh I bet you will have some incredible edible textures to show us!
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We are still waiting for our fall colors to arrive but I love seeing others photos. Autumn is definitely a texture-full season. The flags are very cool! 🙂
Here are my photos for the week-https://katcarpita.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/the-textures-of-autumn/
Have a great day! -Kat
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I saved this prompt just for this month!
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I love all the texture! I especially loved the autumn photos… I’m am always blown away by the color of changing leaves. Great prompt this week… it looks like you inspired many of us!
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I am BUSY with all these links, glad you got to participate with yours!
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HI Terri
All of the photographs are beautiful. You bring up an interesting point in how texture shows up in music, food, and writing etc. It challenges me to look at my life and be more observant of the texture in my day to day activities.
Thanks
Laura
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Thanks, Laura!
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I love the colours of the trees. Here’s my texture
https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/texture-3/
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Very nice photographs!
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I do think this is a perfect season to showcase the textures. We just drove down the mountains in the snow and it was a gorgeous mix of soft and hard and colors!!
XOXO
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
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Oh I’ll bet, Jodie, sounds beautiful!
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I need to check out my pictures so I can do textures.
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Hi Terri, here is one of mine that I think can apply for “Textures” 🙂
http://www.travelartpix.com/fish-drying-in-salvage-newfoundland/
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Some of the most stunning textures I’ve ever seen were at low tide in Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia:
http://www.travelways.com/low-tide-peggys-cove/
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Such beautiful images Terri. I especially love the first one
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Thank you, Lisa!
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What a wonderful collection. Gnomes and flags and leaves. 😀
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Thanks, Carol!
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Such rich texture in those flags. You can almost feel the weave in your photograph. Beautiful photos as always.
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Thank you, Leslie 🙂
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Here are my pics this week. I always seem to look to nature https://dailymusing57.com/2018/10/15/sunday-stills-texture-is-all-around-us/
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A bit of texture from me Terri
http://bushboy.blog/2018/10/15/everyday-texture/
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Hi Terri, I love the texture in the flags photo. I was trying to figure out what it was!
Molly’s pix of the trees/lake is stunning. I didn’t know she was a photographer as well as an excellent blogger!!
I already knew of your amazing talent!
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You are too kind, Melinda! I can’t wait for Molly to start submitting to SS!
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I can feel the textures from here, Terri. Great prompt and beautiful photographs (as usual)!
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Fall is full of texture (as some of the “fall” keeps texturing my floor) that my dogs drag in! Thanks so much, Donna! I saw your birthday is today as I write this and I hope you are having a wonderful day. My hubby’s was yesterday and he did it up big!
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Plenty of autumn colours here in Wales, Terri. We’ve also just had 7 inches of rain in two days, so many of the leaves have come down in the 70mph winds that came with the rain.
Molly’s photos are amazing. She’s captured autumn at her very best.
Having just put up my Halloween lights, I’m now in full Autumnal mode. 🎃
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Autumn and Halloween are so fun! I’m so glad Molly could share her Fall in Maine with us, Hugh! We are in the 80 degree temps this week (again) with north winds. Worried about fires, but rain is rumored to be on the way! Sounds cozy in your part of the world!!
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You are so right. Texture is all around us. You have a great gallery of photos.
Here is my entry for the week.
https://ceenphotography.com/2018/10/15/sunday-stills-challenge-texture-is-all-around-us/
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Thanks, Cee! I’ll be checking your link shortly!
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HI first time I am here thank you for hosting this. I love texture … hope it came alive on mine. Peace blessings
https://donnamaria.org/2018/10/15/sunday-stills-texture-is-all-around-us/
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Hi Donna, I’m so glad you could join us. Your photography is stunning!
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thank you for taking time to visit my site and commenting. See you later. And thank you again for the challenge. blessings Peace
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This was a great prompt thanks Terri, as it really got me thinking! I enjoyed reasearching what texture actually means and sharing some photos that I think reflect texture. Your shots are fab and show a great variety of textures. I love autumn for the colour and variety. I have linked up as you know and appreciate you sharing my post. It’s great to be back thinking creatively and learning along the way. https://debs-world.com/2018/10/14/texture-in-nature-for-sunday-stills/
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I’ve always loved how a good image (or image prompt) sparks a great blog post!
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Thanks so much Terri, I’m glad it worked out.
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I posted up few words about texture earlier this month, along with two snaps. Check it out here:
https://hammadrais.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/photo-for-the-week-11-natures-textures/
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I love Maine and that picture of the colors makes me want to go there in the fall! We have only been in summer, when we go on a windjammer for a week. I think I am pretty aware of textures because of the how the play of textures makes home décor more interesting. I am always adding texture with a throw or a pillow or some other kind of home décor. Even with beautiful colors or patterns, things always look flat without texture.
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I would love to visit Maine! I love the texture of my hardwood floors, a little beat-up but they have character 🙂
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Texture is such a wonderful word for photographers! Here’s my entry for this week.
https://bendbranches.com/2018/10/19/textures-of-arches-national-park/
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Love Aero on the bed!
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Thanks, Susan!
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Beautiful photos, Terri, and a wonderful visual interpretation of the “texture” theme. I just want to join Aero on your bed and snuggle with him for hours. 🙂 Fall has been following us on our way south as well. Or, have we been following fall?
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Aero is snugly indeed! Perhaps a little of both for following Fall, Liesbet!
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