Excellent POV of nature's mood swings. Dana

Wonderful perspective and great shot!

I love the different wood grains! Beautiful color and clarity on the large wooden beam. It looks great against the darker more stained wood on the underside of the deck. Beautiful icicles! And there are drops falling down! Very cool! Great perspective! Wonderful image!

All the different textures and details are great,though that's way too much ice for me!!

Un point de vue/cadrage très original

A stunning composition..possibly literally so if a sudden thaw happens.

excellent POV!

It's interesting to notice, that they haven't painted or varnished the wood, for more preservation against the elements ? but then again we would be deprived of seeing such beautiful textures, exposed ! - a la natural - great angles, also exposed !... BB

Nicely photographed and presented. We have a big Veterans Hospital here in Leavenworth...hospital is modern but it is surrounded with ancient brick dormatories that were in their hayday around 1900. They all have huge wooden porches but with ever changing budgets there hasn't been money to keep these buildings up...the white paint on the wooden porches has largely chipped off, the wood is rotting and timbers are beginning to collapse. Since these are government buildings...safety comes first. So the weakest of these old structures now have ugly chain link fences standing awkwardly around them so that falling timbers won't strike anyone. The entire thing sort of reminds me of the way a lot of institutions are today...old, decrepit and falling down. Nicely seen and photographed Corey.

Love the composition, what you did with the angles, the light, the abstract quality. Excellent image! Aside from that ... it's too cold there, honey. Come to Seattle! :D

I've been gone for nearly 7 weeks, and catching up is hard, but a delight when it brings one to pictures like this. I could see your artistry from your first post & had to assume that this 'new artist' had been doing art for a long time; and of course after reading your bio and then talking to you, I was right. But what's amazing to me is that, for all your experience in several arts, you've never lost your spontaneity. In photography, I'm studied, careful, I'm sometimes so conscious of art that I miss the essence of what I'm shooting. I see your uploads even when I'm offline & not commenting; and I've been struck again & again that you have a spontaneous feel, that no matter what you shoot or how thoughtful the shot, you never lose the moment, the immediacy & burst of 'now'. And yeah, I suppose anytime someone turns a shot on its side (or shoots like this to begin with), it's gonna look spontaneous simply because it's unusual: But that's not it. It's the energy you get, the sense that the shot burst itself into your camera and splayed itself out for you. I don't know how you do it, but you do it constantly, and frankly it drives me crazy because I'd love to get that feeling more than occasionally. Maybe a lifetime of visual experience brought you to this, or maybe you've always had it and never lost it. It's why I've sometimes called you "photojournalistic," but that's too simplistic a title. It's just vital & now & always new & fresh. As for the shot: My grandfather came to Albany Park after he left Russia. (Can you imagine sitting around in Minsk and saying---in Russian---"Hey! You ever hear of Albany Park? What say we move there! Da???") And I lived in Rogers Park for many years & had friends in Albany Park, and I walked through the neighborhood a lot. So boy, do I know these porches! You captured the whole shebang, the feel of the untreated wood, the underside feeling of these stairwells & porches, the shadows & rust & mold & woody ad hoc feeling, and the icicles. And by shooting it on its side, you let us see it as it really is---a big melange of verticals & horizontals, abstract art for the outdoor-stairwell set. And it's really this part of chicago. A terrific shot, a 'corey' shot even though you have so many kinds, and a real chicago shot. Hope all is well with you! I'll be back for more, but boy, this is a pleasure.

OH I like this one, especially the flip, which makes it special... Icicles show up on houses here too, mainly way up under the roof, when it is no isolated enough to keep the warmth from within seeping out. So some of our neighbors have coated their houses anew with thick stuff to prevent this. And then there are still winters like this one, where the weather keeps changing a lot and melting and freezing starts icicles for other reasons than bad isolation. I remember one winter not long ago, where we had an icicle as big as a bodybuilders leg on our house running from the roof two stories down to the lawn. Never have seen one like that since.