This image was taken in Massey, Maryland (my mother's home town).  It is of course the Rail Road Crossing sign with some texture added.  A texture is a jpeg picture (in this instance "wood grain"), overlayed onto your subject and usually manipulated for opacity, de-saturation, etc. and is a way to add interest to the composition.  It's generally used in 2D manipulation but I sometimes experiment with 3D to see what might work. 

This kind of texture would not work well if added as a layer to a completed side-by-side crossview.  (There would be no depth in the texture).  If added to both individual chips however, the offset of the chip POV permits the texture to be immersed within the entire depth of the stereo pair when the two chips are aligned, instead of sitting flatly on the surface.

There's not much there in this small country community.  It's flat farmland, but since the railroad has a maintenance station there and the train carries grain from farms to other areas, I suppose that gave rise to the small town and it's four corners.  It's a little larger than just the four corners but not much and I used to be able to purchase comics from a one-time general store at the corner which appears to no longer be a store.  There's a church and cemetery but that's about it. 

Millington, (where I was raised) is about 5 miles away when you take a left at the corner.  Galena would be about 2 miles straight ahead from this vantage point, where most of my relatives went to school.  I was on the  outskirts of Millington on the other side of the Chester River that divided Kent Co, from Queen Anne's Co. which meant I had to go to a different school than my relatives.

My Mom's farm is gone now but was about a mile or two the opposite direction of this point of view.  There is also the Massey Air Museum (Massey Aerodrome) in Massey now which officially opened in 2002.  http://masseyaero.org/

I realize some may not care for the added texture.  I did lay it on a little thick by adjusting opacity only 50%.


Cha cha, Nikon D600 24mm lens, PS-CS6, ACR, Texture, Vignette, SPM, IrfanView.

Cheers,

Brian

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