I like to photograph everything and anything. Sometimes I go looking for subjects, like animal for portraits or unusual architecture, sometimes the subject just presents itself.
This cob of corn was well past its sell-by date and ready for the compost bin. Then I noticed that the leaves had lost all their colour and taken on the look of something else, like bleached-out linen. So I kept the corn, and in this print I have tried to bring out this look, this texture - so that the ear of corn looks almost artificial, though it is the real thing.
I intended to keep the cob and watch it age further, but an art critic stepped in. A rat crept in one night and tried to pull the corn down into the hole it had burrowed through in the foundations of the old cottage. It wouldn't quite fit in, but that didn't stop him eating half the kernels and tearing up the leaves!
Where I saw beauty in decay he only saw his next meal.