Tuesdays of Texture: Shoddy workmanship

Posted on January 31, 2017

After last week’s illustration of the high craft of the stonemason, here is a much shoddier example of building work, from a bricked-up doorway in the town of St. Junien.

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Category: Texture Tagged: bricks, brickwork, shoddy, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture

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52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 25 – Textures

Posted on January 30, 2017

Textures of wood, stone and metal on this disused well-head in the medieval centre of the town of Loches.

52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 52 – Textures

Category: Texture Tagged: 52 Weeks, 52Weeks, Loches, Metal, Stonework, Texture, Textures, Wood

Tuesdays of Texture: Look Up

Posted on January 24, 2017

Take a moment to look up as you enter St Mary’s church in Beverley and you’ll see some intricate carving – as well as some pretty scary faces.

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Category: Texture Tagged: Architecture, Beverley, Church, St Mary's Church, Stonemasonry, Stonework, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture

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Tuesdays of Texture: Frog

Posted on January 17, 2017

This is a detail of a metal sculpture that’s part of a water feature to be found in the old part of Sydney, down by Circular Quay.

There’s plenty of texture to be had, but I particularly like the way that the arc of water echoes the curve of the metalwork.

Tuesdays of Texture: Week 3 of 2017

Category: Texture Tagged: frog, metalwork, Sculpture, Sydney, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture, Water

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Tuesdays of Texture: Moss

Posted on January 10, 2017

I found this moss growing on a tree in the Beecraigs Country Park near Linlithgow in central Scotland. The texture (and colour) of the tree bark is also interesting.

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Category: Texture Tagged: Bark, Moss, Texture, tree bark, Trees, TuesdaysofTexture

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Tuesdays of Texture: Seaweed

Posted on January 3, 2017

Photographed on Bondi Beach in Sydney:

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Category: Texture Tagged: Bondi Beach, Seaweed, Sydney, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture

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Tuesdays of Texture: Rooftiles

Posted on December 27, 2016

Our builders got very excited when a friend of theirs offered them a pallet full of old roof tiles. They asked if they could leave them with us and of course we said yes. They left them, on the pallet, just outside our barn. That was about two years ago.

Tuesdays of Texture: Week 52

Category: Texture Tagged: Building Materials, Rooftiles, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture

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Mundane? The Gatepost

Posted on December 26, 2016

It’s only an old gatepost – from a little further along the road that runs through our hamlet – but there’s a lot going on with it.

Mundane Mondays

Category: Texture Tagged: Gatepost, Grass, Moss, Mundane, Mundane Monday, Texture

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Tuesdays of Texture: Rope

Posted on December 20, 2016

I really liked the contrast between the black and white plaited ropes and the stainless steel whatever-it-is-that-they-wind-rope-round on this catamaran, moored at Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. We were about to embark on a sunset cruise, so the low evening light also enhanced the texture.