A grand piano in one of the rehearsal studios at the Art Center Music School, Detroit. Like the building, it's badly in need of some cosmetic work. For the backgrounds & textures collab.

Another sidewalk stencil made by nature. Thanksgiving Day, 2010.

Yay, formatting!!! That's new, right? (Ahem.) I think I accidentally hit RECord on my camera prematurely, but I kinda liked the result, sorta. Here it is for you to like and use, or not. :)

Poured concrete left rough, but painted.

Wood floor tile.

I love concrete and rusty metal, so I was taking lots of pictures of this rusty chain and the pillars it was attached to with equally rusy fixures. You never know what folks here can use, so I thought I'd toss one of the pics up here.

Just some green leafy shrub.

DeLiLaH asked for a wide angle view of the tree, so I went to get one, and noticed something I hadn't before. It's in the original photo too, but here's a better shot. Looks like a face, doesn't it? I figured it might be fun for someone to play with here. I'm uploading a few shots of this tree now.

(Actually, in the thumbnail I saw while uploading this, it almost looked like a Munsch-style painting!)

It's from a sculpture/childrens' playscape by Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA.

More of the children's playscape.

some shadows I found in my house. it's overcast today so the light from the window made them were only half-shadows - caught between worlds?

Not really

Really it's a wall with the remnants of vines stuck in it. Texture/background or anything else you can think of to use it for!

Taken at night.

This is kinda disgusting—it looks like one of those scrubby sponges after cleaning a burnt-on pan, doesn't it? It's the remnants of vines that covered a surface (as it happens, on an abandoned building in Oakland, CA) but are now dead. At any rate, it could give some texture to something, right?

Shot from across the street with a zoom lens. I suppose I could've just photographed the scrubby side of my kitchen sponge!

Shadow of palms from our Palm Sunday altar arrangements on the limestone steps below.

These beautiful leaves, lit up by a street light, seemed to be glowing from within. A little blurry, thanks to my unsteady hand.

Not dried; dead. In a vase of nasty-looking water, but I declined to photograph that. :)

A doodle I do sometimes when I'm bored and out of creative ideas - figured it could be used for a texture or background by someone, somehow. It's not exactly perfect, but I kind of like the little inconsistancies. Gives it character, I think.

This is a super-duper high resolution file, so download if you want it ginormous.

And for my final trick tonight, a sort of pebble-y texture. As always, download for much higher resolution.