052: Airborne Toy Crash

What in the name of Flash Gordon happened here?
If I had taken a much wider shot it would seem obvious that this toy car wreckage is situated in quite an out-of-the-way place; the tall shrub is on steeply sloping ground behind a metal fence, and really not near where I was when I took this photo.
It's wedged in the crutch of two lichen-encrusted branches (possibly hawthorn) and missing it's chassis and interior. I keep imagining that it's a full scale car that was dropped from an aircraft into a gigantic tree.
f/4, 1/1000 sec. ISO 200, SMC P-FA 50mm.

038: Beanie Bird

This is unusual...
A fluffy bird toy with a sparkly background! It looks quite like a shower of sparks, actually. If it were more yellow the photo might seem to have been taken in a steel mill. That's an even stranger prospect, something you might come across at pictureisunrelated.com.

I used the same lens and flash setup as I usually have been (as I'm lazy,) and placed a curved, crinkled sheet of kitchen foil behind the bird head.

012: Latex Gromit

Gromit is looking much the worse for wear.
It was found in the same squashed and twisted state last year, being stored away in less than favourable conditions. I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of the hideous thing - I put it down to an innate curiosity for the morbid and strange. It still stands on a shelf, proudly flaunting its decrepit freakyness.
Of Spanish make by "Lanco," it is good old natural latex. When found, it was still slightly gooey in places where it had deteriorated. It's generally dried up now, and is quite brittle all over. A close inspection of the face reveals many cracks and some mysterious coloured spots.

I used a black velvet backdrop and some polystyrene-reflected flash light for this shot. The result is a quite a detailed account of [one side] of its right-angled deformity. Quite a touching, if morbid portrait of a neglected object.