This is one of my recent favourite images. The sunlight shone on this twig at just the right moment. I used a larger focal length to compress the image and blur out its surroundings. I like the shapes and dark tones.

I went for a walk around the Leeds Liverpool Canal, Blackburn a couple of days ago. The sun was out and there were lots of fantastic shadows about. I stumbled across a desolate piece of spare land, which I think was recently a car park. It has been used as a dumping ground for rubbish bags , burnt out tyres, stones etc. At the moment I am working on a task to produce images to show the need for high quality parks (places to meet and play). I found this rather interesting plant and thought about including this with the spare land. My idea being that this place could be turned into something pretty, like the flower.