Photo Gallery - Textures 2
Many 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...
| This picture is something of an exception. Whilst it
does belong in here because the critical part of it is
its texture, in fact, I have no intention of making this
a web page background. This building stands next to the
Church at which I worship, and I took this photograph
after the end of the morning service on 22 December 1996.
The low glancing angle of the sunlight on that day picked
out some lettering on the side of the building which I
had never noticed before in all the years I've lived in
Basingstoke. It says, in four lines: H E DOWELL /
PIANOFORTE / AMERICAN ORGAN / MUSIC WAREHOUSE. It has
been painted over at some stage in the past. This
particular building has no current connection that I am
aware of with sheet music.
It just goes to show that it pays to keep your eyes
open.
The other thing which is obvious about this picture is
that it's somewhat bigger. It was taken on a QV100 camera
at fine resolution, though admittedly I've cropped about
100 pixels off the width and 80 off the height to reduce
download time.
(Actually, the amount of similar colours in this image
means that this large picture compresses down to a 27K
.jpg file, not much larger than the usual 320x240
pictures.)
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Another QV100 image, this time reproduced full
size in all its 640x480 pixel glory. These pebbles aren't a
natural assortment - as the variety would tell anyone who can
identify the various rock types represented here (even in
Britain, with its astonishingly diverse geology for such a small
place, there's nowhere which would account for this lot) - but an
ornamental arrangement in an office garden.
(A word about image sizes: This would have needed
about 900KB as a bitmap, but the QV100 uses a JPEG-based
compression algorithm which only requires 66KB. The QV Link
software converts from that internal format to true JPEG - used
here - which then requires only 60KB. Not bad, eh?)
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