I thought I had lost this beautiful chess set I made when I was eleven years old in primary school. It had gone missing around the time I moved to Melbourne to live about 17 years ago. What a wonderful surprise to find it in a box at the back of the bottom of the garden shed!

I quickly drew a grid on sheet of paper, my daughter coloured it in with a highlighting pen and the games began.

… Robert

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Staring Pawn’. 1/20 sec at 170mm f/2.8, ISO 1000