Just Wandering

Mid morning on an indifferent weather day isn't the most inspiring time to take photographs. But that is just what I was doing at Barton Waters up near Lincoln. It wasn't too warm either and restaurant that I was walking round had been closed and the interior was clearly being ripped out - all a bit depressing?
Then this caught my eye!

If I didn't know what I was looking at I might now be wondering just what had been photographed. Is the surface vertical, horizontal, or even at an angle?

A square light fitting has been inserted into narrow wood strip decking which encircled the restaurant. That building had been erected on piles out into a marina basin waters. For safety reasons a handrail had been built on the water edge of the decking and it's some of the supports for this that are casting the weak shadows across the wood strips.

The wood is weathered, worn, split in parts, and acquired an uneven coating of green lichen to add some subtle colour. Small dried leaves have got caught between the slats - all to produce a rather odd and slightly unsettling photograph.