BTP's (Post 1)

My loving family pokes fun because I like to take close-uppish pictures of things like walls and tree bark and fabric and dirt and so forth -- I love the lightplay and patterning and abstract quality of it all. But they think it's funny. They call them, with some detectable smirking, "Bop's Texture Pictures."

 

At one point, I made the mistake of saying I was thinking of sharing them here, which then sparked encouraging comments like, "Great idea! A pile of weird Texture Pictures to save up and probably never get around to posting -- nice!"

 

To spite them, I offer the following first round of BTP's from our time so far, with minimal captioning, while we're still here. Ha! Enjoy...

 

Scorched wooden siding, Kyoto Kita Ward

Thatched roofing, Kinkaku-ji Temple grounds, Kyoto

Earthen wall, Rakushisha, Kyoto

Garden wall, Tenryu-ji Temple grounds, Kyoto

Arashiyama bamboo forest, Kyoto

 

Pilea cadierei, Kyoto Botanical Garden

 

Kurama-dera Temple grounds, Kyoto

 

Ubiquitous "textured yellow line", Kyoto walkways

 

Floating Flower Garden, TeamLab Planets, Tokyo

 

Consecrated sake barrels, Meiji Jingu Temple, Tokyo

 

Cinnamaroll charms, Sanrio Store, Tokyo

 

Stone signpost along Choishi Michi pilgrimmage trail, Koyasan

Moss-covered Japanese cedar tree (sugi), Koyasan

 

Japanese cedar (sugi) litter, Koyasan

Dai-mon Gate, Koyasan

 

Tree shadows on shoji window shutters, Hoon-in Temple, Koyasan

 

Tatami mat, Hoon-in Temple, Koyasan

 

Hotteok seed filling, Busan

 

Eucalyptus tree that survived the atomic bomb (approx 700 m from hypocenter), Hiroshima

 

Surviving giant pussy willow, approx. 700 m from hypocenter, Hiroshima

 

Surviving kurogane holly tree, approx. 900 m from hypocenter, Hiroshima

 

Hiroshima Castle wall

 

Daubigny's Garden, Van Gogh - Hiroshima Museum of Art

  

The Pont Neuf, Signac, Hiroshima Museum of Art