Macro texture study: a sheet of heavily rusted iron, orange and brown oxidation blooming in layered scabs, some flakes lifted at the edges about to fall away, pitted craters in the metal beneath, raking side light picking out every ridge, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: wet granite, water beading and pooling in the shallow depressions of the coarse crystalline surface, flecks of quartz and feldspar catching the light, darker where saturated and lighter where drying, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: crumpled silk fabric, soft folds catching light along their crests and falling into deep shadow in the valleys, the sheen shifting from pale gold to shadowed blue depending on the angle of each fold, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: the surface of clear ice with air bubbles frozen inside at different depths, some spherical and some elongated into teardrops, fine internal fractures scattering light into faint white feathers, backlit so the interior structure glows, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: a dense cushion of moss growing over stone, thousands of tiny upright stems each catching a highlight, deep green in the shadows and almost yellow where light hits, a few water droplets held between the fronds, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: old leather worn smooth in places and deeply creased in others, the grain pattern stretched around the creases, darker polish built up in the low areas, a few pale scuffs where the surface has been abraded, warm brown, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: the broken edge of thick glass, the fracture surface showing conchoidal ripples like frozen waves, the edge catching light as a bright thin line, faint green tint visible through the thickness, sharp and cold, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: raw poured concrete, the pebble aggregate showing through a worn cement skin, small air voids scattered across the surface, a hairline crack running diagonally, cool grey under flat overcast light, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: a single bird feather, individual barbs separating and rejoining along the vane, the fine barbules visible where they interlock, translucent at the edges where light passes through, soft gradient from dark quill to pale tip, fills the entire frame

Macro texture study: a sheet of hanji mulberry paper half soaked with water, the long visible plant fibres darkening and swelling where wet, those patches gone translucent so light passes through from behind, a wrinkled tide-line ridge where the wet area meets the dry, raking side light picking out the whole fibre mesh, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: the cracked bed of a dried-out rice paddy, roughly hexagonal shrinkage plates of grey clay curling up at their edges, the cracks between them wedge-shaped and dark and wider at the top, a few bleached rice stubble stalks still rooted, fine dust settled in the fissures, hard overhead sun, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: the side of a thick candle, wax that ran while molten and then froze mid-flow into smooth rounded drips and stacked overlapping lobes, the surface semi-translucent so light enters and scatters a few millimetres deep before coming back out, one sooty grey streak, warm light from one side, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: the surface of an old Korean brass bowl, warm yellow metal darkened to brown and green in the hollows by oxidation, a dense network of fine circular polishing scratches catching the light in arcs, a few shallow dents, the polished high points reflecting a soft window as a broad blurred highlight, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: cooled pahoehoe lava, the skin folded into smooth ropy coils like braided rope lying in parallel runs, glassy blue-black iridescence on the ridge tops, a few collapsed gas bubbles opening as round holes into hollow cavities, low raking light so every fold reads, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: deep red velvet, the pile lying in different directions across the cloth so the SAME fabric reads pale where the nap points toward the light and near-black where it points away, one soft fold running diagonally, four fingertip tracks brushed into the pile leaving lighter streaks, no sharp specular highlight anywhere on the surface, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: window glass covered in frost, ice crystals grown in feathered fern shapes radiating outward from several separate nucleation points and colliding into visible seams where two growths meet, a few clear thawed pinholes where warmth touched the glass, cold blue daylight coming through from behind, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: a weathered manila rope gone rotten, its three strands untwisting and separating, bleached grey fibres frayed and standing out as fuzz along the whole length, one strand broken and splayed open into loose filaments, grit embedded between the twists, dry raking light, fills the entire image

Macro texture study: the skin of a wind-dried pollack, shrunk tight and gone semi-translucent over the flesh so the ridges of the ribs show through from underneath, silvery iridescent patches lifting and flaking away at the edges, deep dry wrinkles running lengthwise along the body, a scatter of coarse salt crystals caught in the folds, hard side light, fills the entire image