Patterns in Pale

Just three more days and the first month of the new year will be kaput; amazing to me, simply amazing.

Since the finale of Project 365, I've felt a little adrift, without sense of direction or photographic purpose.

Hey! Good News! I finally sold my first photograph from my Etsy shop! I've been uploading inventory to that shop for over a year, and other than an acrylic painting that sold to a kind fellow in The Netherlands to give to his wife to hang in the kitchen, no photographs have been purchased through the Etsy venue. UNTIL NOW! I'm thrilled. I just shipped it off to Australia. (What? Don't people in the US of A want my photographs? One wonders!)

My photographs continue to be featured in Etsy Treasuries. Here are the latest:

 

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjMwOTE1M3wxOTYwMzM5NTk5/i-should-be-sleeping

Treasury: I Should be Sleeping

Curator: Natalie Eberly of TheSilkMoon

Photo: Cannot Sleep a Wink

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTM0MzY2OXwxOTYzMTQ3MzM0/getting-sleepy

Treasury: Getting Sleepy

Curator: Macedoine

Photo: Cannot Sleep a Wink ... yup, two different curators included the same photograph to their treasuries on the same day!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI1NzE4OTh8MTkyMDI5MjgxOQ/year-of-the-dragon?index=0

Photo: Garden of Good Luck

Curator: Kath Burrows from MagpiesHaunt

Treasury: Year of the Dragon

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTU3NzY0OHwxODE5Mjg1NTg2/awake

Treasury: Awake

Photograph: Morning Tea ... I love this pleasant photo/good patterns

Curator: Jessica Esther Hoflick at CitrusTea

But for today's upload I'm sharing a few photographs that are pale in hue, but which I found to have interesting textures:



Birch Bark/Detail
I was drawn to the "scribbling" on the outer
layer, with the pristine inner layer
recently exposed.




Unedited iPhoto of a fence of
welded metal wheels.




I love the abstraction of this photograph
of froth left over from my eggnog
Filmgrain effect




I think I may have shared this one
with you before earlier this month. It's a close up of an
abandoned wasp nest. I loved looking into the egg chambers.