You Never Know ...

... just what to expect when you are out walking with a camera. Always a good idea to have one with you just in case! Maybe that camera on the mobile phone will do and it probably will if you are concerned with capturing incidental experiences. But if you want that extra bit of detail perhaps a 'proper' camera is more suitable.

Here is a such a situation. 
It's any easy choice for me - I haven't got a camera phone so I have to take a 'point and shoot'. And looking at the results I got on this particular afternoon I'm glad I had what I did have, a Lumix LF1.

Charlie is a builder.
Charlie has an open space he uses as his yard. Perhaps he shouldn't as its only a piece of scrub land at the side of a public road.
Charlie has an incinerator. 
It's best described as a sheet metal cube with the top missing. 
Over years of use it's got battered and bent, rusted in the sun and roasted in the heat of many fires. Looking over the edge with afternoon sunlight making hard shadows the colour and general scaliness is revealed 'in all its glory'. Best captured I think with he sort of camera I was carrying.

And moving round the bin the variety of iron oxide colours showed up so well.

Just looking at the pictures without any explanation would you have guessed the subject?
And if you weren't interested in just looking at what there was around you would you have ever considered looking at Charlie's bin, let alone thinking that it might make a good photographic subject?

I just love finding unconsidered objects like this and then trying to realise the photographic potential. I'm even considering getting large prints made, framing them, and hanging them as 'abstracts', with the knowledge that they are more than that!