Our challenge for this issue was to seek out something old, yet small enough to be carried by a person. We wanted to see what interesting textures and colours talented Photo Review Challenge-takers could find in their subjects. Once again, as the photos reproduced here show, we were not disappointed.
 Our challenge for this issue was to seek out something old, yet small enough to be carried by a person. We wanted to see what interesting textures and colours talented Photo Review Challenge-takers could find in their subjects. Once again, as the photos reproduced here show, we were not disappointed. The winner is Karl Borgelt’s marvellous study of an abandoned bicycle just below the surface of what appears to be a lake. Karl doesn’t say where he took the photograph, nor what camera he used, but such details are hardly necessary for an image as strong as this one. Karl has won a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0.  C. Morecroft’s pair of aged shoes caught our fancy sufficiently to claim the first runner-up position. It’s a much loved photographic subject, but we think the picture still achieves the Challenge objectives with a degree of panache. Caroline Telfer found and photographed a ‘flattened and battered old piece of tin’. This is the sort of object many photographers would walk right past, but Caroline’s eye for composition transforms it into something we find strangely beguiling.  G. Varatharajan’s says the ‘rusty old wind chime’ from his backyard still has a ‘soothing cowbell chime despite many years of neglect and many coatings of rust’. We think his picture has a nicely balanced and serene quality, so we added it to our runners-up list.  Details of the current Photo Challenge are published in Photo Review magazine. Click here to order online or to find out where to buy your copy.
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