Welcome to this edition of the Weekly Challenge, #341. Thanks to Superduper, who hosted last week's Challenge, the honor of carrying the baton has been passed to me.

This week's theme is Common Subject or Object Uncommonly Presented. In other words, show me a photo with a common subject or object presented in a different way than you'd normally expect to see it. If the photo carries an implied "message" or is humorous, all the better. Please feel free to elaborate with an explanation if one seems necessary.

I'll give a few examples from my archive to give you ideas of what I mean...

Halloween Pumpkin Lobotomized by squirrels and shrunken by sub-freezing nights




Bird A redwing blackbird takes flight (Described further here.)




Hook, Line, and Sinker Deadly to wildlife, monofilament, hook, and lead sinkers are tangled in overhead wire during a snowstorm




Flip-Flop Floating upside down in a river eddy




ShoppingCart Rusting and toppled near an overgrown auto graveyard




Foliage Abstract of ferns converted to black-and-white, then inverted




Reading Glasses Photoelasticity Birefringence in action




Please don't be bound by these pictures, but instead, use them to kick-start your ideas. Let your imagine run free. I look forward to what everyone comes up with. Have fun!

The fine print:

Every week, a new theme is picked and judged by the winner of the previous week.
The Challenge will run until midnight February 14th, 2016, whichever time zone you are in.

Rules
1. Post ONE photo (max 1024x1024).
2. The photo must portray an interpretation of the theme.
3. Post your single picture in this thread and explain what motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly theme (especially if it's not obvious).
4. The challenge is interactive. Any response is welcome.
5. The judge will pick the WINNERS and choose one of them to be the judge for the next week.
6. This challenge runs for 7 days, and will allow an additional day for the judge to choose the winners.
7. Any Pentax (or Samsung DSLR) camera (film or digital) can be used.
8. Pictures can be from any time frame, not just within the week of the current theme.
9. In case the winner of a challenge is unable to become the judge for the next challenge, they will PM the #2 winner for that person to be the judge.

[Outis]

A bike basket.

[Clou]

Great idea for a challenge.

Saw this while visiting a flea market:

Don't stop?!

Michael

[Hattifnatt]

Nice theme.

[tessfully]

Love this topic, hard to choose, but this is one of my favourites.

[atupdate]

Empty Nester



Tim

[slowpez]

I woke up one morning to this outside the window of our 5th wheel. Quite a sight and it was the beginning of the rut too so not a good time to be posing with an elk.

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[Bruce Clark]

Beached

A small boat semi submerged in a sea of sand, with leaves floating on the sea of sand.

http://www.ebay.com.au/

[eva]

[fg-one]

Missing the (focus) point...

[Arjay Bee]

tarspoon

[Tamia]

A fine set of entries already! This will be a tough one to judge, but there's plenty of room for more. Bring 'em on!

[ramseybuckeye]

Recently I went to a woods, actually hoping to see some wood ducks or some hawks, I saw some birds, but not at all what I expected, it was a first. There were two roosters and a hen wandering around. Obviously they had wandered away from a farm somewhere, they were not afraid of me. I went on my walk and came back through there about an hour later and saw the chickens sitting in a tree. One of the roosters jumped down before I took this photo.

[scomatic]

A mushroom on the water surface.

[Dieterson]

A common apple hanging at its tree at a not so common time of the year...

It is actually not that uncommon to see a few apples left on some apple trees in winter. Usually, however, they are more or less eaten by birds by that time.