Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sunday Stills: Texture

The Sunday Stills Challenge this week was texture. How about a Bull Thistle? They are terribly prickly. I hate them.
What about some foliose and crustose lichens on a Burr Oak? I like lichens:)

26 comments:

moresecretwhispers said...

i like that last photo, very intersting subject :)

jrosey said...

Great thistle shot and the lichens are realy cool looking! Definitely a lot of texture in that shot!

Laughing Orca Ranch said...

Clever selections. Ouch on the thistle! Lichen are always interesting to look at and touch.
Good captures!

~Lisa

June said...

I hear you on that thistle! They're the only things that can make me wear gloves to pull out weeds!

The lichen is so lacy, isn't it!

Ed said...

Very nice, a fellow lichen lover I see..:-)

Peggy said...

Wonderful pictures and full of texture. I love texture. But I have such a time finding what Ed wants us to do.

Wildblack said...

Very nice shots! Lichens on a burr oak.. makes a perfect texture! Cool!

Holly said...

ooooo, spikey stuff! Love them both but like the color in the thistle.

One Red Horse said...

I actually like thistles and love your photo!

One Red Horse said...

I actually love thistles, and love your photo.

Shirley said...

It always amazes me that donkeys and horses will eat thistle. I get a laugh out of watching how delicately my horse will nip a little piece of thistle off to chew.

SighMan said...

Lichens! Waaa I wish my memory card had arrived for this challenge so I could go outside. Great shots! :)

stansberryphotography said...

Very nice textures here!

The Retired One said...

These are GREAT.
I love texture and find out that the photos that I take that I like the most always have a texture element to them.

prairierunner said...

Good job! We call those Canadian Thistle here:) Horses LOVE them, it's true as Shirley says.

CTG Ponies said...

The lichens are awesome!

Kelly said...

Thistle...nice selection!

Pacey said...

I've never seen a bull thistle yet and yes, quite prickly looking uh.

WhimsybyMari said...

Thistle is such a beautiful plant too bad it is so awful for farmers. Beautiful choices.

katieleigh said...

your second photos almost looks like coral, very interesting

Ebie said...

Me too, I love the lichen. Great entry for the challenge.

Irene Toh said...

Those two are interesting subjects and evoke touch just looking at them.

lecoinperdu said...

Beautiful...love the lichen!
ronelle

Kilauea Poetry said...

Hi there..we have thistle here too. These are a perfect for texture..and that second one is cool-

Emma Rose said...

That Bull thistle looks pretty mean! But the bloom is beautiful. The lichen is interesting. We just collected a variety of mosses and lichens to put on our photo blog (there goes that great minds thing again!)

The Duchess

Jen Mo said...

Both are very good but I like the bark the best! Sorry so late in posting!

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