I love how, because that I pretty much have my camera with me at all times, the most mundane or horrible tasks can produce a good picture.

In this case it was searching this old shed for dead rats! (someone had poisoned said rats and they kept turning up in our garden, and then dying). Luckily the shed was corpse free, but the crusty old lock was a great subject for a macro shot.

I also ran in to the old question of “could this be a better picture in black and white?” whilst post processing this. I’ll probably be uploading that one later.

Update – here is the monochrome version, I think I prefer the colour one personally.

Hardened, originally uploaded by Johnson Cameraface. Technorati Tags: rusty, crusty, scary, rats, macro, photoblog