Textures of Gower

Just had a week down in wonderful Gower, South Wales.  It’s got fabulous coastal scenery, wildlife*, and a really wide range of habitats.  Being me, as well as enjoying those things I was on the look out for textures and patterns; I found some too.

The bus to Rhossili from Swansea has a turning area near the church.   It couldn’t really go much further without driving into the sea.  There’s a bus shelter there and someone, or something, must have hit the roof of it quite hard as the reinforced glass was shattered.  There was a fab pattern of random cracks overlaying the internal wires.  A quick move to get diagonal shapes from corner to corner and the shot was mine.

The wall of Rhossili’s Worm’s Head pub forms part of an alley leading to the top of the steps going down to the beach.  I was struck by the stucco and render on the wall and the holes in the ventilation brick.  It made for an interesting study in textures.

A found feather gave a natural pattern rather than a man-made one.  I clipped my macro lens on to my Pixel phone so I could get close-in detail.  There’s a lovely blend from green to blue and enough sharpness in the centre.

* Highlights were dolphins, seals, weasels, choughs, stonechats, ravens, wheatears and a profusion of wild flowers – including marsh orchids, pyramid orchids, common spotted orchids and ivy broomrapes.

If you have not been to Gower then you are missing a treat.  Who knows, you might even find some textures down there.