Hard & Soft.
 
This feather washed up on the shingle beach, seeming to state the absolute contrast between these objects: The light and the dark, the wet and the dry, the hard and the soft. Photo details: Canon 350D, ISO 400, 1/250th second exposure with a Sigma 28-300mm lens @ f-6.3 + polarising filter.

Image taken May 17th 2008