A complete departure from my usual natural history based fare and certainly not a genre I will progress in any depth but it got me thinking when somebody asked if I ever tried any other types of photography. Though hardly "novel" I hope you will find this cross polarised study of a cheap plastic geometry set carefully and sympathetically composed. With Velvia the colours truly leap out of the screen. I confess it was great fun messing about on a rainy day.

For those that have never tried cross polarising, you need a light box, a sheet of polarisng film (Jessops) and a polarisng filter and some grotty transparent badly made bits of plastic to show stress patterns of manufacture. The geometry set was positioned between the polarising film and the on camera polariser with the light box behind it. Twist the polariser and amazing things happen. NOT DIGITAL.