This week’s theme for the Lens-Artists Challenge, set by Ritva, is ‘Abstract’. It seems that there’s some division of opinion about the merits of abstract photography: some don’t like it, others love it.

As it happens, I find myself in the latter camp. Keeping an eye (and a mind) open for unusual and/or unconventional images keeps you on your metaphorical photographer’s toes.

But what, you may well ask, is this (expletive deleted)? It looks (to me at any rate) rather like some kind of surreal enchanted forest. However, the truth – as so often – is rather more prosaic. It is, in fact, a detail of the inside of the door of my dishwasher. Before I turned it on, I hasten to add.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Abstract