Found myself sitting around my apartment last night when I caught of glimpse of my old workboots out of the corner of my eye. The next thing I know, I'm rearranging furniture and grabbing the only servicable table lamp I own so I can play around with lighting.

The short story is, out of about 30 shots, this was the only one I liked. Most were too dark or too light. I wish I'd had this one last month. I love the texture on the backdrop.

Criticism welcome, but be gentle. This is the first time this humble beginner has felt like he'd created something from basically nothing!

Post work in Photoshop was converting to black and white, and a bit of contrast adjustment (looks good on one monitor, bad on another. Hard to tell which is right). I may go back later to crop a bit and get rid of that bit of bootlace on the left.

-Taltos