Textures

I often take photographs of textures for no apparent reason. I think to myself, "this would be cool hanging on a wall" or "I could drop this in the background of a photo". When I know that isn't true because I neither have the patience or the skill to do such a thing in photoshop. See I use photoshop for its original intention, to work on photos at a rather basic level. If I really wanted to mess with a photograph I would do it the traditional way, with paints and crayons and scissors and whatever else may tickle my fancy. Any of you who have seen any of my "art" could attest to that. But I digress. I can't simply take a photograph of something for the enjoyment of photographing. Why not? Does there always have to be a purpose for it. Can't it just be for the love of snapping the shutter. So just for the love of pushing the button, on my iPhone, here are some textures I shot today.  The cool thing about shooting just to shoot, is it forces your to focus on compositions and think outside the box of what you normally do.  Try it.

P.S. I got a couple of more good questions today that I am going to try and answer this week, one in particular, photographing the moon.  So keep the questions coming.