I went in search of textures this morning for my garden photographs, and in particular, for this Iris I had just bought at Stop & Shop.
I started out with a Google+ photographer who uses textures quite a lot, almost too many textures to my eye, but I figured he would at least know some resources. He posted that he was giving an interview about them on another Google+photographer’s page. I went there but couldn’t find his interview but found another with Mark Johnson, a photographer from Colorado, who is a very good teacher and he mentioned that he was a using a texture from shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com that were not only beautiful, but free.
I went there, and sure enough, beautiful textures and all for free. I downloaded them all. Left him a Paypal thank-you and went to work. Hours of creativity are ahead of me because of another artist who decided to allow his creations to be available to all. Generosity and creativity do not always go together. It is a lesson I shall take forward with me.
