Textured design elements

So I was doing some study and practice of web design elements in photoshop, and wanted to share and save a pair of the samples I came up with. My goal was to start to incorporate textures into my elements.

The first experiment is a simulation of a stack of photos that I plan to eventually incorporate with CSS to superimpose a WordPress featured photo into – as part of a bigger web design. The background of other photo-frames gives some spatial depth to the image, and also serve to confuse the eye just enough to make the whole thing appear off-angle when it is, in fact, straight.

The other image is a still-incomplete vision of a website that might incorporate that photo stack into a larger website.