Day 14 – Texture – Paul Marfell

What does a photographer do when presented with the word “texture”. I found this one more difficult than “up”; which was Day 2. You can read the start of my blogging about the challenge here – marfell.me.uk/wordpress/?p=266

To me a photograph is texture and in most cases a good photo has good texture, though of course there are good “news” photos where the texture is a distant second. So how do you represent texture using a photograph?

After my cup of coffee this morning I realised that I should not have bothered and that I should have gone out when the sun was shining. Getting a photo that has texture is so much easier when there is some light from somewhere.

I went for one of my frequent walks along the river at Denso Nature Reserve looking for texture. This time I had a short lens on the camera instead of my long zoom lens. However I did swap to my zoom lens on occasion otherwise I would have missed being able to post this as my texture photo –

This is the same Robin in full song –

The river bank gave me plenty of opportunity to capture texture, even without the sun. This tree has textured bark and several woodpecker holes in it.

Many of the trees have mosses and lichen growing on them

Sawn off tree trunks also provide texture.

The lichen covered stone wall across the other side of the river provided some good texture (I took the photo because of the discarded strimmer that was half in the water but that has been cropped out for this “texture” purpose.)

Back home I continued to look for texture and I think some of these give an acceptable interpretation of it. We had a little bit of Sun as it went down so I took the green photos below which are showing the texture of the light.