Free Texture Friday - Light Blue Streaks

This week's free texture is light blue patterns.

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This photograph was captured at Bush Park in Salem, Oregon.












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Free Texture Friday - Light Blue Paint Splatters

This week's free texture is light-blue and green patterns.

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This photograph was captured at Bush Park in Salem, Oregon.






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Free Texture Friday - Light Blue Chaos

This week's free texture is dark sand patterns.

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This photograph was captured at Bush Park in Salem, Oregon.






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Free Texture Friday - Vertical Patterns

This week's free texture is natural light patterns from camera panning..

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This photograph was captured at Bush Pasture Park in Salem Oregon.






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Free Texture Friday - Dark Sand Pattern

This week's free texture is dark sand patterns.

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This photograph was captured at Beverly Beach State Park along the beautiful Oregon coast.







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Free Texture Friday - Birds of a Feather

This week's free texture is birds on white.

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This photograph was captured at a pioneer cemetery in the Willamette Valley countryside.

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Free Texture Friday

Sand Texture

Today is Free-Texture-Friday and today's free texture is a great natural texture of sand patterns.

Nature provides some of the best patterns to use in images.

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A Free Texture for the 4th of July

Free CMS Texture

Here it is; a free, full-res texture. Most people seem to like their textures to be monochromatic. I prefer to use color when I want more than just Grit and Grime for textures, which is almost always.

This texture was photographed using a Vivtar 70-200mm Macro lens at f/3.5 and completely out of focus, obviously. Click on the image to the left to download the full resolution image then right click and save it to your personal textures folder.

Here is a sample of using color textures to pop and image. To the right is the original image of my friend and fellow photographer Nathan Smith of SmithFineArt.com.

This was photographed on an overcast, dreary January morning and ample blue-gray light falling on and around the subject. In addition to the natural light, a flash fired off to the left, just out of frame.

The natural surroundings are already very industrial and textured so why would I need to add more?

I didn't need to. But I wanted some color in the back and foregrounds. Nothing too heavy or present, but something subtle but noticeable.

Hence my use of an abstract texture I photographed in my back yard, shooting fall leaves that had fallen on the ground. The colors here are green, yellow and a slight magenta and purple. Green of course was the strongest color of the three.

I hope you enjoy the free texture and keep checking back, as I will add more content weekly.

An Afternoon Creating with Others

Yesterday afternoon I spent a few hours with Nathan Smith, Michael Conkey and Chris David. Only, for the most part, I wasn't shooting. I was the subject. The guys, plus Chris Sabato who was out of town for this shoot, are working together to deliver portraits for each other that communicate the essense of who each of us are... a project that originated with Nathan.

It was cold. It was dreary. It was amazing. It was fun. Spending time with these guys is always entertaining, educational and a huge collaborative super nova of creative energy. I didn't shoot much, since today I was the subject, but afterwards... I was sent loose and had a little fun with my camera.

The location is a building that looks like a abandoned warehouse, but in fact it is a working foundry. The owner, Jackie, was in this day and invited us in to look around. Jackie showed us around and told us stories about the foundry, which he started working at in 1964 and then purchased in the 80s. Jackie was a friendly man willing to take time out of his busy day to talk with us and show us around. 

I walked around capturing some HDR series of the interior for reference in planning a future shoot at the location.

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Since it was cold, Jackie fired up a natural gas torch for a little heat. Well, being the 12 year old that I am I was drawn to the fire like a moth to a flame but because I have a slightly bigger brain than a moth I stopped short of getting burned. I got some cool fire textures. One of the things that I love about photographing fire is that with every frame captured, fire is different. Fire is a living and breathing creature that is in a constant state of change. Fire is awesome!

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Also... check out my new watermarks for my images. I have developed eight new watermarks for lightroom. There is one for the right, left top and bottom of images in both light and dark versions.

Can't wait to see the results from Nathan, Chris and Michael. Thanks guys for the fun time.