Maybe this is a #Mystery for Monday. Lobsters are indeed color blind (I looked it up), but that seems little excuse for this excess of color in a lobster trap! And such colors. Do you suppose there is any method behind this madness? Certainly it will make it harder for the lobsterman to lose his trap. Maybe it repels some predator? Ah, I have it, it is to discourage summer tourists from taking the trap home to decorate the lawn!

As an abstract it is certainly eye-catching. I stepped back and framed this segment with approximately an 180mm field of view…which provided some compression as well to emphasize the abstract aspect. I really like the random rope-end, which, to my eye, sets off the calculated geometry of the constructed trap.

Canon SX20IS at 180mm equivalent field of view, f5 @ 1/500th @ ISO 80. Landscape Mode (just because that is what I had it in for the previous shot).

Processed for intensity and clarity in Lightroom (but the color is all the trap-makers!)