Photo Gallery - Textures 1
All of these I have taken with a view to possibly developing them into textured backgrounds for web pages, a bit like the whitewashed wall on these gallery pages. So far, I haven't taken that idea any further, but then I suppose it's a case of having the right web page to use the background on, isn't it...
| A gravel footpath in Swaythling near Southampton. One of the difficulties in deciding how to use something like this as a background is how to make the edges meet up. I have a theory on this, but have so far not tried it out. | |
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Whilst it looks quite like a piece of conglomerate rock (a real geologist might call it a breccia because the particles are angular), this is man-made. It's a close up of a garden paving slab. |
| This one's quite interesting. You could think of it
as an in-camera special effect. It's a close up of a
liquid crystal laptop PC screen. The coloured fringes
don't really exist. They are the result of the
combination of the pattern of the cells in the LCD screen
and the matrix in the charge-coupled device of the Casio
QV10 electronic camera. I actually have used a portion of this image, reprocessed with the colours changed, as a background for one of the pages at this web site. See if you can find it. |
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Before you think otherwise, I actually took this a couple of months before I got Windows 95! I use it as Windows wallpaper on a machine at work. |
| This is another one I have used as Windows wallpaper. I looked down rather than up to take this, to a pavement near where I work. |  |
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Reflections in the surface of water are generally calming. This particular water is in the canal just along from Gas Street Basin in Birmingham. |
| This one's a bit of a mystery, isn't it. In fact, this picture was taken within a hundred metres or so of the one immediately above. There is a ?bronze sculpture of a cloud on the canal side outside the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. The picture is a close-up of the weathered surface of this sculpture. It really was this pale greenish blue colour. |  |
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And now back to a real sky. Clouds with these mackerel markings often precede storms. |
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