Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment:
I find this a bit weak compositionally: and the light and shade a bit blunt. It seems to emphasise shininess rather than smoothness. Whatever that stuff is surrounding the main shell seems very arbitrary.

Pin-Stripped Suit
by ellamay

Comment:
Wonderful abstract-ish shot. Great light, great feel. Not quite sure it really gives an impression of texture - it seems more graphical than that, more about lines and colours than surfaces, but I'm sure the impact of the shot will get past that in most voters minds. Still a 7.

Shaggy
by sek469

Comment:
Lacks detail, and perhaps focus though that's difficult to tell with that lack of detail. Some sensation of texture though, so you'll gain a point or so there.

Pure
by Andelain

Comment:
Good quality of light - and of a hairy/mouldy kind of texture to those things in that tube. Compositionally pretty strong too. Somehow the tube seems to be your subject, and yet not really the thing that has texture - I don't get a convincing feeling of texture from it.

Rose between two thorns. Ouch!
by train

Comment:
Well lit, and I suspect a genuinely 'found' subject, but the leaves are distracting, and the stalk being almost exactly on the edge of the focal plane is confusing. Visually, the texture seems to be primarily visible on that stalk, and yet it's barely in focus - makes the image confusing and rather odd.

Cold, Hard Cash
by mocabela

Comment:
Whilst you have shown this surface quite well, there is a lot more to be got out of this kind of subject. The levl of reflection used is effective in making the point of your title, but I think perhaps over-done from a visual point of view - I mean simply, doesn't look so good. Cropping and framing make it a very clauustrophobic image.

Smooth as ice
by Links 2 3 4

Comment:
Bizarrely low contrast shot - almost appears to go negative at one point. Composition is weak, and what I'm seeing doesn't say smooth as your title does.

Face Time
by boxjockeys

Comment:
Odd positioning of subject: distribution of elements within frame is poor. Some texture, but can't escape the fact that there's probably a lot more there than you've shown.

Ice with character
by Polar7

Comment:
Liek the sparkle you've captured, almost over-exposing for those icicles. I find this weak compositionally though, and the point you've chosen for the incidence of the horizo (or whatever) and your subjects a bit weird. There is at least some sensation of texture in the nearer icicle.

Morning Light
by Gordon

Comment:
Greetings-card pretty, and well composed photograph. Doesn't really communicate a great feeling of tactility to me though - I'm not sure snow is a great subject for texture - that conjunction of appearance and experience, the fact that it looks all fluffy and feel cold and wet ...