For all you in high summer, some autumn/winter Acer leaf colour

Lord Vetinari

Couple of macros of leaves on my acers before they all disappear.
Brian V.

Skippy

They Look Like Leather

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Couple of macros of leaves on my acers before they all disappear.
Brian V.

Geez Brian how closely do they resemble leather
I love how you've done these shots........ the texture, the colours, sharpness....yup work never seizes to amaze me Skippy (Australia)

SirArmstrong

Very cool shot. Organic pixilation?

Lord Vetinari

Skippy wrote:

Geez Brian how closely do they resemble leather
I love how you've done these shots........ the texture, the colours, sharpness....yup work never seizes to amaze me Skippy (Australia)

Thanks Skippy,
Weather was wet and windy yesterday,so I got fed up with trying to do these on the trees (no bugs around either) - picked a few leaves and took them inside to photograph. Tried a few different light (flash) set ups and these seemed to come out best.I just love the patterning you see on them closeup and you are right the texture n the first one does look like leather.
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

SirArmstrong wrote:

Very cool shot. Organic pixilation?

Thans you Sir,
Think I'd call them organic tesselations
Brian V.

SirArmstrong

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thans you Sir,
Think I'd call them organic tesselations
Brian V.

Ok, I just learned a new word. I had to look it up - this certainly is a better description of these leaves. Perhaps it is a pixilated tessellation.
Thanks for expanding my vocabulary and visual enjoyment.

tessellation - to form or arrange small squares in a checkered or mosaic pattern. The word "tessellate" is derived from the Ionic version of the Greek word "tesseres," which in English means "four." The first tilings were made from square tiles. A regular polygon has 3 or 4 or 5 or more sides and angles, all equal. A regular tessellation means a tessellation made up of congruent regular polygons.

Lord Vetinari

SirArmstrong wrote:

Ok, I just learned a new word. I had to look it up - this certainly is a better description of these leaves. Perhaps it is a pixilated tessellation.
Thanks for expanding my vocabulary and visual enjoyment.

tessellation - to form or arrange small squares in a checkered or mosaic pattern. The word "tessellate" is derived from the Ionic version of the Greek word "tesseres," which in English means "four." The first tilings were made from square tiles. A regular polygon has 3 or 4 or 5 or more sides and angles, all equal. A regular tessellation means a tessellation made up of congruent regular polygons.

Think your description of pixelated tessellation is excellent : . Didn't know the official definition, but I'm a fan of Escher who does tesselleted paintings and it remined me of them, which I suspect is why I wanted to do a closeup of the leaves in the first place.
Brian V.