(From A Certain Ratio's 1982 album Sextet)

Post-punk-funk from the mighty A Certain Ratio! Danceable Joy Division, groovy Cure, Killing Joke with boppability....

This has turned out quite well! While peeling the spuds last night (to go with mange tout, green beans and a sort of lamb-stew-hotpot-casserole-ragoût thingy), I noticed that the serrations on the knife were actually little triangles. "AaaaHAAAA!" I cried, as I ditched the spuds and rushed off to get the camera, "just the job for the macro lens, stay there while I set everything up...". A few test shots at various apertures later, and I decided that wide open was probably the most 'artistic' (when is it not?) but I felt the light was a tad undramatic. So, I whipped out my Speedlight, placing it at a jaunty angle of 45 degrees to the blade's surface until I got the lighting I wanted. Result!

Back at the PC, I processed the best shot twice in CS3, first for the detail in the blade, the second time for the background - by chance (be honest now - by accident more like!) I managed to change the white balance to 'fluorescent' when I was doing the first conversion in Camera RAW, but the colour which resulted was this wonderful purple/indigo colour, so I decided to keep it, especially since it matches the song title so well :o)

Having spent half an hour or so with this fettling malarky, I return to the kitchen...to a burnt dinner :o(. Ah well, a trip down the chippie it was for me then ("fish supper, Chief; plenty of vinegar, easy on the salt...oh, better give me one of them cartons of curry sauce as well...and a can of Coke...")

Tuesday 29th's incisive-dinner-cutter-upper-and-distributor entry to the Challenge; click here for other geometrically-challenged Pbasers this month