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Lew
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Theme ~ Textures
Chosen by Mac.
Popping in with a quick blog post for this week's theme! We just returned home from a week's vacation in the Adirondack Mountains, at my parents' summer home on Lake Bonaparte. All of my featured photos today are from our trip.
Here's my header image, uncropped:
This mushroom, as you can see below, was at least 10 inches in diameter--as big as a dinner plate! My macro shot above shows the interesting texture.
Who can resist the texture of ice cream? And whipped cream? Not I! We visited the local ice cream parlor, Treats 'n 'Tiques, for dessert one night.
I love the old textures in the sign below, which was hanging at Treats 'n 'Tiques. The "'Tiques" is short for Antiques, and they have several on display, including old memorabilia from the area.
In town--and I use that word loosely because the main area of town is literally one block long--there is a park along the Oswegatchie River, next to the bridge at the end of the one block "business district." You can see the bridge in the image below.
Above, I used a shutter speed of 1/250th second to achieve a stop-action kind of shot. The texture of the water appears hard and crisp.
In the below shot, my shutter speed slowed to 4/10 second, and the texture of the water changed to a soft, flowing one. Cool effect, huh?
Water can also appear calm and smooth, and I leave you with this final image of one of the sunsets. It was a mostly cloudless evening sky, but I loved the orange radiating out from where the sun had set earlier. The longer exposure (6 seconds) created the smooth, calm effect, which goes nicely with the peaceful sky.
That's all I could manage today; but, I will have more time to dedicate to next week's challenge. See you then!
Treasuring life's moments,
Christine
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Here's my header image, uncropped:
This mushroom, as you can see below, was at least 10 inches in diameter--as big as a dinner plate! My macro shot above shows the interesting texture.
Who can resist the texture of ice cream? And whipped cream? Not I! We visited the local ice cream parlor, Treats 'n 'Tiques, for dessert one night.
I love the old textures in the sign below, which was hanging at Treats 'n 'Tiques. The "'Tiques" is short for Antiques, and they have several on display, including old memorabilia from the area.
In town--and I use that word loosely because the main area of town is literally one block long--there is a park along the Oswegatchie River, next to the bridge at the end of the one block "business district." You can see the bridge in the image below.
Above, I used a shutter speed of 1/250th second to achieve a stop-action kind of shot. The texture of the water appears hard and crisp.
In the below shot, my shutter speed slowed to 4/10 second, and the texture of the water changed to a soft, flowing one. Cool effect, huh?
Water can also appear calm and smooth, and I leave you with this final image of one of the sunsets. It was a mostly cloudless evening sky, but I loved the orange radiating out from where the sun had set earlier. The longer exposure (6 seconds) created the smooth, calm effect, which goes nicely with the peaceful sky.
That's all I could manage today; but, I will have more time to dedicate to next week's challenge. See you then!
Treasuring life's moments,
Christine
Visit my website
Stop by my family blog
Follow me on Facebook
Interesting take on textures Christine.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tom. I couldn't put a lot of deep thought into this theme, so I don't know that I did justice to it. But I think I came up with neat ways to show texture! Thanks again!!
DeleteLove mushrooms and ice cream, and lovely waters too. Christine
ReplyDeleteThanks! I love mushrooms and ice cream, too, but not together, lol.
DeleteLove the water shots! Nice work with the shutter speed.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lew! It's fun to work with water and longer exposures.
DeleteLovely textures from nature.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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