What is This??

lotusearth · May 22, 2005

Thx JonMikal

Sorry, though, you didn't guess right either.

Digital Matt · May 22, 2005

Looks like some type of rust/corrosion.

anua · May 22, 2005

Digital Matt said:
Looks like some type of rust/corrosion.

that's what i thought -

good pics, btw - they look like paintings, i really like them-

welcome here!

Scurra · May 22, 2005

It looks to me like corrosion or oxidation on copper... I could be wrong though... nice shots. some great textures there.

LizM · May 22, 2005

Looks like cast iron before its completely cool (or is not completely melted).

Bada Gora · May 22, 2005

Very Interesting......Is it the inside of a kiln?

lotusearth · May 24, 2005

thx everyone for comments and guesses!
I was going to tell you all what it was yesterday but I was too busy.

ANSWER: It's the bottom of a big metal (aluminum?) cooking pot. I was cooking pasta the other day and forgot to turn the stove off (bad, bad, bad). I turned the pot over and saw those black flakes that looked like paint peeling off and the copper with all those beautiful colors.

I wonder though, if anyone thought these looked like some kind of skin disease...lol. someone did at another forum. kind of does, too, especially the 3rd one that's out of focus.

LaFoto · May 24, 2005

Gruesome skin disease that one would be! Brrr! Yak.

And you forgot to put off the heat then? Well, when did you realise? What was the smell like? Who told you off for it? Did you throw out the pot - I assume you can no longer use it?

However: you did put it to wonderful "last" use when you took the photos of all these interesting colours. Very cool abstract - like I said earlier: had you handed this one in on the Monthly Challenge, this could have been a winner!

M @ k o · May 24, 2005

dang, I was going to say an abalone shell worked up in PS.

lotusearth · May 25, 2005

Hi M@ko & LaFoto :wink:

I realized I forgot to turn off the heat when I smelled a strange odor...how to describe, I don't know-electrical? I'm not going to use it anymore for cooking even if I still could. But no need to throw it away-could be used for other things... And I'm not done taking pics of it! lol.

Yeah, I wish I knew about the contest sooner. I could still enter it couldn't I, even if photo is of same subject but not the exact same as these I've already posted?

Well thx much for your comments, LaFoto.

Abalone shell? Well, M@ko, that's as interesting a guess as skin disease, but abalone shell is certainly much nicer