What would you do with a perforated piece of metal?

[Matt K.]

I found this cut-out of who knows what. It's a piece of perforated metal, about 6" in diameter. So I was bored again. Had to take some images of it. What amazed me was how the different poses made me take a double look: I knew what I was taking an image of, but the old brain gets fooled once in a while, and not everything appears as it should. Please don't ask me: W H Y ?????

So I elevated it with the help of three pencils. Put a tea light on it. Put two tea lights under it. Then I extinguished the top tea light. This is why I call this one:

"The last breath of the tea light"

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/4991661171_596a54b268_z.jpg

Then I got the macro lens out. Damn thing does not have a manual focus override, which is a nuisance, if you ask me. Great lens, but you try and focus in low light with it :headslap: So here is the next one:

"No 5 - Weird Surface"

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4992267760_c5962c2546_z.jpg

Was going to make this a survey: What is it? Found a sparkler lying around the house, thought I should try and use it. So this one is:

Could it be Welding?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/4991658767_32ef3b166d_z.jpg

So then I took images from the side .. experimented with light. I like this one, because it looks like a pile of wedding bands.

Wedding ring, anyone?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/4991659135_ce2fa8b2a9_z.jpg

And finally, how it all started:

"The Poor Man's Stove"

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4991661441_7f72a8376a_z.jpg

[Greg_Nuspel]

Matt you're starting to bug me, your creativity is getting too good and making me look more like a point and shoot guy......wait a minute I am :wall-an:

Nice stuff there Matt, the 'welding' shot looks industrial if you know what I mean.

[Iguanasan]

What he said! If I found that same piece of metal, looks like a punch out from something, I'd of thought, this is cool and then thrown it in the garbage :eek:

You, instead, come up with all this awesomeness. Very cool. :)

[jude01]

Love it! Metal is so much fun to work with. I did a similar shoot using light and the inside of a cheese grater.

[Marko]

Very well done! love the creativity here.

[casil403]

#3 for me please. Love the abstract quality of all of them but the light in the background in 3 does it for me. :)

[Matt K.]

Thank you all for your kind words. But really, I was just bored ... :shrug:

[ArtphotoasiA]

Really interesting shots we have!

Keep going ... reality is just a point of view!

[JAS_Photo]

Cool set! I especially like the one with the sparkler. I thought I replied here days ago actually. :sad: