I always thought that you couldn't break those glass blosks with less that a gun shot. Live and learn. Great look to this capture. Dana

Amazing work - well seen Corey. The colors and lighting through the glass and the cracks all work so well together. Great job.

Smashing photo Corey:) Like it... I am a little lost for words too. But it fits right into your gallery of urban photos.

Good eye for interesting photos! Many would just see this and call it a bust but you have managed to make it art!

I can hear the song ... You always have me running to look things up. This time it was Pentecostal Romanians. Honestly ... the things my brain latches on to!! Love the picture. The color of the cracks is most excellent!

Another of your most wonderful city scenes---love the color!!

excellent image!!

The cracks look filled with gold! some vague connection flickered in my mind between that and wealthy Romanians speaking in tongues but it was only a flicker.

superbe photo!

Very interesting image. Great lighting and textures! Excellent capture!

excellent web on the glass pane, the effect is really fascinating

Superbly captured and rendered! The whole ambiance in this stunning capture of the shattered glass is spooky and reminds me of a scene from a horror movie, many of which I've seen in my long stay on the planet.

Pentacostal Romanians occupying what was once a synagogue! That's Chicago for you. At least I think the place used to be a synagogue...Pentacostals don't exactly build things along those particular architectural lines, and well...I could be wrong, but I think the name of the original synagogue is still on the current church. I'll have to check that out when I'm back up there. And now, onto something different. This shot! WOW! I know that window, I know those cracks, I've photographed them as well, and I have to say that it's endlessly fascinating. You captured the light quite well, and the colors are so richer than I'd commonly expect of...well...of cracked glass block. It looks almost gem-like in nature, like some rare species of diamond mined from wherever rare species of diamonds are mined from. And well...what can I say? I love this shot. And yeah, like Tara and Andrea, my mind is trying to wrap itself around Pentacostal Romanians, especially since I've seen some of them, and the little old ladies all look like traditional, not-exactly-Pentacostal babushkas with that surly edge that babushkas get, when there are enough of them together. Little old lady gangs! Oooh, there's another image that this photo has conjured. This is a great shot.

This sent me off in various directions too. I found an interesting bicycle tour of the Albany Park area with lots of images, history and architectural information. There I found the Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church and that it was designed by two brothers (named Pond) that also designed the Jane Adams’ Hull House. Then I went off to refresh my memory on the connections of the Unitarian religion with Romania. It was in Transylvania, in the 16th century that the first Unitarian congregations were established, an edict of religious toleration was declared in 1568 under the reign of John Sigismund (first and only Unitarian king), whose court preacher stated, “We need not think alike to love alike.” All very interesting stuff to me, but.... This is a terrific image! I love the golden light of the cracks and the white ghostly ones below them. That looks like a hole at the top! I wonder what happened here! Beautiful patterns! I like the radiating wispy tendrils from the massive ball of gold and the crescent shape to its left. Wonderful light and detail! The combination of the wavering light and patterns caused by the glass block and the exuberant slashes of the gold of the shattered glass is quite marvelous! Excellent capture!