Playing Around with Texture

long walk

I have been playing around with some of the pictures I took last week. I liked the images, but something seemed to be missing. There wasn’t any depth… richness. So I decided to play around with some textures. I had noticed that several of my contacts on flickr mentioned Kim Klassen’s textures. So I went to her website to see what I could learn (I added her button to the right). She had a free e-course about textures. I am hooked… now I need to figure out how to make my own textures =D

clearing my mind

I saw this little stack of rocks (cairns – or some call them stupas) on a stack of logs. I love finding little stacks of rocks. It says ‘someone has been here’… and they weren’t in a hurry. How often do we see signs of that? How often do we have the time to see the sign?

contemplation

The person that stacked these rocks had to climb over a pile of logs, left by the tide, to get to the beach. Once at the beach, each rock had to be chosen… paying attention to size and shape. They then climbed back over the logs to find the perfect log to stack the rocks upon. I imagine they took their time with this process… listening to the sound of the surf, pausing once in a while to watch the waves crashing against the sea stacks (the large rock formations out in the water) and the beach. I imagine that they sat there on the log, next to their stack of rocks, and took a moment to contemplate. Perhaps they were struggling in life and just needed a moment of peace… or perhaps they were counting their blessings. What comes to your mind as you sit and look at this image?

Ruby Beach – Washington

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