Here are a few from the 365 that we did a few years ago. Might be good for a few ideas. Click through to full images.
Our cat walking out of a box, with a radio-controlled flash inside.
Trees at Pen Park golf course
Flowers in our yard in the morning
Cheese grater
Banjo player
Grim Reaper
North Fork reservoir
You need to enter the competitions more often, Anton!
Anton - I agree with Gerry. Let us see some of your work at our competitions.
Jim S
3, 4 and 7 were Meredith's shots; the 365 was a joint effort. We had a lot of fun setting up the Grim Reaper shot; it now seems like the sort of thing that Jim and Liz might submit. We hosed the window down and put a strobe on a stand behind Meredith. I shot from inside. At first, in Photoshop you could barely see a big goofy grin on her face but I think I burned that in (out?).
Thanks for the comments! Now, I'm sure I'm not the only one with some old stock that exemplifies this theme.
So yeah a shame we havent seen some of those photos in competitions. The cheese grater is a great idea. I had done it once myself. I used gels on a flash.
Here is one of mine i go to this event every year. I am sure there is a better shot somewhere but havent honed in on it yet.
Also here is a cheese grater i did a while back. Obviously i would have needed to get some of those water spots off and get it shiny to be competition worthy
Interesting shots, Anton. Thanks for sharing them.
Jim S
Here's a pretty good tutorial on backlighting.
http://www.rocktheshotforum.com/2011/09/19/backlighting-tutorial/