Black & White Abstract. China News stand in Vancouver. An accidental landscape with a frozen lake appears in the black grafitti on a white panel van. (+ Grey). Two black and white abstracts in scratched and broken plaster on … Continue reading Black & White (+ 1) Abstracts from Around the World
Cracked wall with efflorescence. More of Nancy Merrill’s Photo Challenge: Cracked. Continue reading Cracked Wall with Efflorescence Abstracts
I learned a new word/concept this week: Wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. When I googled it I got a lot of images of interior design, all images of simplicity combined with a lot of irregular texture … Continue reading Trying to Work Out the Meaning of Wabi-Sabi
One of my favourite pink and yellow photos is of a metal sculpture of Don Quixote up against a yellow wall with a pink bougainvillea on the end of his spear. I liked it so much I used it for … Continue reading A Pink & Yellow Mood
I love it when paint cracks and peels away. Decay is such a thing of beauty. Peeling paint on the ancient door of a Tudor house in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rusty wall with peeling turquoise paint in Penang, Malaysia. A neighbour’s garage and … Continue reading Cracked and Peeling Paint
These two images of rocks from Ireland are from two different places; the first is from Galley Head which had a mass of rocks I want to paint and the second is fractured shale from the Cliffs of Moher, another … Continue reading Textures of Rocks on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland
Lots of rusty textures available on Canada’s Wet, oops West, Coast. First off some appropriately rusty ‘rain’ scenes. Walkers out in a sprinkling of rust. Rust about town… A couple of rusty dumpsters.A rusty pipe with shadows.My favourite source of rust … Continue reading Rusty Textures on Canada’s Wet Coast
Years ago I got a new Nikon Coolpix camera but it had a devil of a time focusing and I came back from several holidays with a bunch of out-of-focus shots. Inspired by a photo show in Singapore I experimented … Continue reading Using Out-of-Focus Images as Overlays
Palm trees from the south grow with horizontal-ringed bark, so different from the bark of the trees that grow in our northern forests. Rough with smooth in Singapore. Similar palm tree with red seeds at Barra de Navidad in Mexico. The smooth ringed … Continue reading Palm Tree Trunk Texture
This is the third time I’ve tried to work with the rule of thirds. The first time I discovered that almost none of my photos qualified so I ended up working on some of my husband’s shots. The second time … Continue reading Rule of Thirds, Take 3 (Skim Surfers in Mexico)
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