Nova Scotia: Where This Photographer Loves to Play with Texture

I take a lot of photographs.
(I can hear the guffaws of my siblings 
and my husband at that statement).

The Digby Wharf

Nova Scotia, Canada

Westport, Brier Island

I can't help it:  The world is fascinating,
and there is so much to see around us if we only look.

Rainy Ferry Ride Through a Car Window, 

Grand Passage, Between Brier and Long Islands

Argyle Street in Halifax

So I've just gotten back from Nova Scotia,

and I'm looking at the many photos 
I've taken for many reasons.

Annapolis Royal Farmers and Traders Market

My Go To Stall for Acadian Style Chocolate Croissants and Bread.

Digby Gut from Smith's Cove

Some I took for the sheer joy 
of the beautiful textures that I saw.

Weathered Building in Digby

Contrasting Textures in Westport, Brier Island

I often think of photography as painting with light,

but it is so much more that.
It's form, color, line, perspective, and composition.

Alexander Keith's Brewery,

Lower Water Street, Halifax

Tidal Waters

Habitant River, Canning

One element of photography that speaks to me 
compellingly is texture.  I respond to it intuitively.

Sophie Doodle with Mr. Orangie

Point Pleasant Park, Halifax

Door to the French Powder Magazine

Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal

Built in 1708

Basically texture is the roughness or smoothness of a surface.
In the physical world texture is tactile.
You can reach out, touch a surface, and feel its texture:
its shape, size, and physical arrangement in space.

Seagulls on the Foggy Shore

Out Lighthouse Road, Westport, Brier Island

Birch Trees, Smith's Cove

In photography texture is visual.
A photograph's physical surface is smooth,
but its image creates a sense of an object's tactile qualities.
In your mind you can feel the surfaces in a photograph.

Evening Comes to Argyle Street, Halifax 

Seafood Chowder, Halifax

It's often texture that provides detail and information
about your photographic subject.
Texture can also embed emotion and drama in an image.

Clam Digger on the Mudflats

Smith's Cove

Ice into the Hold for a Commercial Fishing Trip

Digby Wharf

I hope these textural photographs from Nova Scotia
give you pleasure as they do me.

 Bonfire, Smith's Cove

Basalt, Boars Head,

Tiverton

Boars Head Lighthouse
Tiverton, Nova Scotia