Submitter's name:	Moose
Title:	Red Textures and Tones
Gear used:	OM-4T, Kiron 105mm f2.8 Macro, Hakuba CF tripod
Diaphragm:	f11
Shutter speed:	1/30
Film used:	Kodak Supra 100
Technical information:	A smaller aperture or getting the camera more square to the subject would improve it. Late afternoon light at a shallow angle picked up the surface structure.
Subject information:	Not one of the shots I took for this TOPE, just an experiment, but it kept growing on me. Maybe I'll see if anyone can guess what it is. Groucho would say "Not something you would find around the house every day."
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Good texture shot. Now, as to what it is, hmmm, let's consider the hints: a macro shot and not something which one finds around the house every day... Hmmm, it appears to be some sort of cracked wood (or paint perhaps?). My guess would be something like a dried and cracked tree root/stem/branch or something like that.

Comment left by: Daniel Danrich (danrich@hawaii.rr.com)

Looks like metal slag after iron particles build up after being cut or ground from a section of iron based steel.

Comment left by: Charlie Geilfuss (Charles.Geilfuss@HCAhealthcare.com)

Nice texture. Has a very fluid look about it in some areas. My guess it is old varnish on a piece of furniture that may have been left in an attic a while.

Comment left by: Moose (dreammoose@yahoo.com)

Olaf's first guess is the best one. My SO has a favorite palm tree in a botanical garden, a different kind that is huge in number of trunks and overall width, rather than absolute height. One can climb up into the center and meditate. One day she brought home a piece of fallen bark, probably the base part of a frond, and laid it in a flower bed, where it has further weathered. While in the garden shooting flowers, I took a shot of it gleaning in late afternoon light. In the end, I liked it better than the shots I took specifically for TOPE 14. I didn't say what it was for exactly the reason made clear by the various guesses, here and on the Oly List, that certain processes, in this case, deterioration through exposure to destructive elements, look remarkably similar over different original materials and type and time of exposure

Comment left by: Wayne Shumaker (om4t@zuik.net)

The highlights to the right cetainly add to the interest here, I could easily be flying in a plane looking down on landscape or be an ant climing a tree. Where is the river:-)

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