Playing with Textures

Just recently I have been playing around and putting textures onto images.  It could become addictive!

 

Liverpool

At the end of October Stokesley PS, along with Northallerton CC, represented the Northern Counties Photographic Federation in the Print Championships at Connah's Quay.  After the event we had a day in Liverpool where I enjoyed 'people watching' especially as they were walking up and down the magnificent spiral staircase in the new Museum of Liverpool.

There was also a very nice tapestry in the modern Roman Catholic Cathedral which caught my eye.

Hillier Arboretum

As well as the bark of the Himalayan Birches and Eucalypts I enjoyed the colour in the bamboo stems.

I don't know what the pink flowers are.

Adding Textured Layers

I have been playing around with textured layers and this is my first attempt.  After some comments on Flickr about the sky in the first one looking like a wall I have made two other versions.  Version 2 shows more sky and Version 3 with the sky in Version 1 desaturated.