Mouse Grill

Before anyone phones the RSPCA, no rodents were cooked during the creation of these images. Last weekend I dusted down the 300mm zoom - my least used lens - in order to record an aerial phenomenon that turned out to be a sun dog. I noticed how the low, late afternoon sun was playing over this metal grill we had installed to prevent the local mice from ransacking our kitchen, so switched to manual focus, and played around creating various 'bokeh' effects with different degrees of un-focus, various focal lengths, and variations in camera-subject distance. The resulting abstract patterns struck me as quite fun, so here they are.