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Canon EOS 70D, Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM lens, 1/100 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 200

So we’ve come full circle with the photo challenge, as we’re back to black and white this week. The challenge for this week was entropy. The challenge writer was explicit in his removal of the physics definition, but made no mention of the information theory definition (a logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language). Unfortunately, I couldn’t really think of a nice way to shoot this, and the generic definition just works better.

While working to work yesterday, I saw a crashed car (looked like it hit a powerpole or something) on the footpath outside the police station. But I didn’t have my camera with me, and I hadn’t really read the challenge at that point. Plus, when I got home, I realised it was the opposite of entropy — it was a sudden decline into disorder.

Then I remembered that we have this old wheelbarrow in the back lawn (it’s not ours, it was there when we moved in). There were a few challenges with this subject though, the main one being it’s not physically possible to move it (I tried, and the bottom fell out without much prompting). So I basically only had one angle from which to shoot it. In post, I moved the white point around a lot to emphasise the texture on the barrow (it’s actually a rather rusty red, not the bright colour shown here).