Colourful metal cross pendant

My 3 oldest kids got one of these each from a friend that had just come back from the US. They were very impressed and have worn them constantly until they had to go to school (Jewellery not allowed).

I really like the body shape and in particular the coloured wire wound round it – each pendant had different coloured wires.

This image is slightly cropped to a 16:9 shape; your regular widescreen. I like shallow depth of field, but in macro photography I find it can be a bit much – and to deepen the dof you have to use a really small aperture and therefore bright light (and if you narrow the aperture too far you actually end up getting more blur because of the diffraction effect – more on that another time). I think this image works as the focus is in the correct place.

The background also plays a big part in this kind of photo – Chookooloonks gets some great dark backgrounds like this one: bonus shot: colourful moment