Antique Books

Working with texture today and once again using Gibson's exercise to crop the subject closely to emphasize certain components of the picture. In this case it's the design in the leather of the Family Bible and the heavily guilt edges of the photo album on top.

[Sandi]

Your artful crop creates an intriguingly textured close-up. I would so gravitate toward looking at and reading these books!

[Kerri]

Awesome b&w

[summerfield]

am i correct that it reads "blessed is he that reads this"? beautiful textures. i so love old books!

[Barb]

It works so well!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@summerfield Close- Blessed is he that readeth.
@gratefulness Thank you Sandi!
@kerristephens Thank you Kerri!
@barb_b Thank you Barb!

[Colleen]

Wonderful texture and books

[Daisy Miller]

Great cropping. Artistically done. Great textures.

[Lyn Todd]

I like this shot!

[Tammy]

Gorgeous books - fantastic texture. Love it!

[aikimomm (phoebe)]

Nice, Ann.

[Robyn]

Wonderful lines and patterns in the b/w

[Debs Stott]

Another great study in texture Ann. Fav

[Cindy]

Oh man. I love this!!!!

[Colleen Brown]

Fantastic close up!!

[Bev]

Great b&w. Nice job capturing the texture and the detail. Very artistic.

[Paula]

Beautiful!

[Kane Arlow]

Awesome b&w.

[Marta]

Great textures. Fav.

[alia_801]

Beautiful textures - work very well in B&W :)

[Joan Robillard]

You have captured the textures very well.

[Nicole Campbell]

This is a wonderful, detailed shot

[Dione Giorgio]

Well done. A lot of detail in this shot. B&w brings them all out.

[Sally Ings]

Love the textures and the vintage feel of this. Just lovely!

[Joyce]

Great composition and textures Ann

[Graham Thresher]

Great shot

[Nicole]

this is beautiful in b&w!! like your crop and the textures really stand out!

[Bill Fenske]

amazing texture Ann

[Margaret Brown]

Lovely processing and textures

[Linda H.Y. Hegland]

This is really lovely. FAV

[Margaret Obey]

Lovely Ann fav. Gibson's book has proved very insightful. I'm learning second hand! Gibson must be a powerful name, I recommend my trainees to get a book on teaching Shakespeare by Rex Gibson as it's a brilliant manual.

[katy]

Fabulous capture of the detail and the textures, Ann!

[Pyrrhula]

Great composition. processing and capture of those lovely old books.

[Carole Imes]

Awesome processing! We have an old family bible from 1848 that looks so much like that old photo album---cover hanging, etc.

[Rachel Withey]

Fantastic textures

[Islandgirl]

awesome textures and comp Ann!

[Denise (lyndemc)]

The cover of the family Bible has such amazing details. What a treasure of a book.

[bkb in the city]

The detail is amazing. Well done

[Ann H. LeFevre]

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Wow! I am overwhelmed by the response to this shot! Thank you so much for all the views, comments and favs! I'm so excited to see this on the Popular Page- it never gets old!

[Rosan]

Great job! Wonderful detail and texture!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@fntngrma Thank you Rosan!

[Kate]

That is beautiful!

[Susan]

Beautiful image, love the textures.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@francoise Thank you for the fav Francoise!
@kt8ird Thank you Kate!
@slash Thank you Susan!

[Vesna]

Awesome!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@vesna0210 Thank you Vesna!