Abandoned, Rusty, Eye Candy

I sympathise if you don’t see this as eye candy. Well, kind of. I’m sharing these pictures for HeyJude’s Textures challenge, so if you don’t like rusty old cars, you can blame her.

This week’s prompt was:

Get close to your subject and capture just the texture itself, without the context. Then zoom out so that you capture both the context of the texture as well as the texture itself.

When I first assessed this set of pictures, I narrowed down the five I’d taken of the Ford to two. But when it came to sharing them, I thought it might be worth taking a quick look at all five, lightly processing them, cropping them and reducing their size.

Now I find myself sharing the other three, the ones I’d initially rejected. It pays to keep an open mind when processing pictures, assuming you have time to experiment.

I’m adding a couple of other pictures taken the same afternoon in the Mississippi Delta. It’s tempting to go overboard, because it’s such a great place to enjoy texture, but I’ll keep it brief.

I added a filter to this one, to keep the focus on the sign (and because otherwise the colours were a touch blah):

My final shot is another rose – a good, romantic one with just the right touch of wildness. I could be wrong, but I got the impression it largely cared for itself. It is quite a contrast to the royal rose I shared yesterday, but I love them both.