Monday Mystery

I was getting a bit annoyed. I used to have a couple of apps on the iPad which were somewhat unique in what they could achieve with very little effort. One was ideal for making a Halloween themed video. The other (Hyperdroste) made videos with changing spiral patterns created from still photos. It took a while for my remaining active grey cell to work out why they had vanished:



Chances are they were amongst many useful old apps which stopped working when I updated iOS a while ago. Unfortunately they are irreplaceable as they were never updated. Consequently they are no longer available on the app store. Yesterday I deleted at least a dozen more apps which will no longer work and have not been updated. At least Uface (used to make the avatar above) remains active.

As I was checking through the various photo manipulation apps I still have I came across XnView Photo which, among other things, can create embossed effects. That got me thinking I would try a few of those for the Monday Mystery photo so here is the first one:



What was this a photo of? If you would like to hazard a guess please leave it in the comments. They will be revealed, with the answer, next Monday.