Most often we think of a photograph as a picture of a thing, a subject. Texture patterns are photos that feature a repeating pattern, but no subject. I think texture patterns derive interest as a form of brain food. Our minds naturally want to figure out what is going on in the picture despite there being no focal point of attention. The exercise of figuring it out usually succeeds, but in the process we get to consume the whole scene.

It’s worth spending some time purposefully seeking texture patterns to photograph. Good patterns are not perfectly uniform repetitions, that’s too easy to parse. After a while, patterns present themselves naturally as good subjects.

On recent walks in local parks, these patterns of rocks and grass caught my attention.

The QSA main site has a tutorial on textures.