Nice shot, but what is it? A clock, a gear box, alien technology stolen from area 51 in New Mexico?

Interestingly toothed gear. Im curious too.

perfect lighting, rusty old clock?

Indeed it is a rusty old clock stolen from an alien ship in area fifty two. The lighting was a result of sticking my flash unit inside a small cardboard box and holding it (the camera was on a tripod/no flash) over the clock. I manually set the flash off five times to get the result.

Damn! Area 52 of course, I forgot about that...

Interesting gear? It's clearly twelve ticks then a deep grove, one deep grove, one tick one deep is two o'clock, then two ticks and one deep for three... etc.

ugh macro shots of things that don't move. a pet hate of mine.

it's underexposed and the shadows don't make any sense and using ISO 200 is a really strange choice. i don't like the composition and the focus is confusing.

sorry man i couldda lied to ya!

i did a bit of photoshop to try to show you what i mean... dunno if this link works though
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2418/1839484318_34f53cf62c.jpg?v=0

Well, that's the only choice I had for composition, No other angle would have shown as much. It was exposed exactly like I wanted it,(I do have photoshop myself anyway) and I'm not sure what you mean about shadows - but it doesn't bother me. People are going to like what they like.

"ugh macro shots of things that don't move. a pet hate of mine." - MINK

Of things that don't move? well, if it was moving, then i don't think you would have had a picture. Maybe a movie, but then it wouldn't be a very good "picture". Besides, Macro shots are difficult enough, what with only a slight portion of framing that isn't blurred. Maybe i missed something. Especially on a 60 sec exposure...