Keep Off The Grass ...

The theme for this week's Sunday Challenge sounded so simple at first: leading lines. Simple, that was until I went out and started looking around for a suitable subject to photograph.

Anyway, despite my best efforts this was the best I could come up with. Although perhaps not what you first think of as a "leading line" I felt that the chain, which secures the main gate onto the playing fields at Northallerton Rugby Club, did constitute a line of sorts and to me at least it draws your eye towards the main subject of the shot: the old padlock.

There are also some other more traditional lines, albeit perhaps less obvious, that I felt also played their part in making this image a suitable contender for the challenge. There's the gap between the fence post and the frame of the gate that runs behind the padlock. Then there's the rusty spring on the gate itself that comes in form the right hand corner.

As for the processing that was done using Photomatix. I only recently purchased this software, but I'm already growing very fond of it.