I won't name names, but isn't it interesting how a particular roommate inspires entropy and a few other things best left un-discussed in polite company? I really like this shot. I am also pleased (and only slightly dismayed) that the new screen is beginning to look like the old screen. I like the details in this. I love abstract photography and this is deliciously abstract. Great stuff! Good to see you posting again, even though I see you every week, whether you're posting or not. It's good to see the digital you though...

Good to see you back Corey. Trust all is well now. Sad to see the damage the roommate caused. Superb capture. God bless.

Cataracts is all you need, as we say here! I love this, and don't think I'd have guessed what it was as we don't have these screens.

excellent work

I saw the thumb and thought, "Wow ... that's great ... I wonder who did it?" Scrolling a bit, I was surprised (and delighted) to see you posting, but not surprised that it was you who had produced such a quality picture. This is way cool! Cataracts are an easy fix (as I'm sure everyone you know has told you), supposing your insurance covers it. I've had one eye done, and Bill has had both, and it's all pre-op and post-op stuff. The actual operation takes, literally, seconds. When I went in for mine, the surgeon came in, did her thing, snapped off her gloves in triumph and announced, "Seven seconds!" It's GOOD to see you, my friend.

welcome back!! marvellous photo

It's great to see you post, Corey. Your work is always a big blast of new, fresh air, it just never is old, jaded or 'repetitive'. I've had conversations about you with other RR artists, on the phone or in emails, about those very qualities. (Tara and I just talked about you, in relation to street shooting, and how you're such a natural at it, with a journalistic sense in all you do.) You wrote, "I'd run out of ideas, got embroiled in writing a novel, my camera was broken, and I was diagnosed with cataracts..." I'm sorry you've had so many challenges, esp after your long journey with your heart, etc. I do know (and concur with Tara) about cataracts, and the people I've known who've had them said the same things Tara said. And a few said that, after the procedure, they saw like they hadn't seen in years, like someone removed an old filter from their eyes. I hope it's easy for you, and not complicated. And---not taking a bit away from that sentence---the sentence itself sounds like a great opening to a story. Thus begins a story about a P.I...Anyway, I hope things get better for you. And It's always a pleasure to see your eye here, if even every 13 months. As for the image, it's pure you, and I love it. I don't know how you turn this kind of image into something exciting and new---I'd never photograph a ripped screen, it would bore the hell out of everyone and embarrass the hell out of me. But somehow you managed to make it fun, exciting, and with great light. I love the pure black behind it, and the pov is terrific because it dangles there with the chasm at the bottom. Love the shot. One of the things tara and I said was that you make everything new again, and that's how this feels. Living in a high rise, we don't have screen doors, but we do have screen windows, and I haven't paid attention to them in an eon. But now I've been re-introduced. Wonderful image, Corey. Good luck with your novel, I loved what you've posted here, and I know how huge an undertaking a novel can be (I wrote one years ago, and it never got past chapter 4...it was gargantuan, unmanageable and horrible. It called me names.) I hope it takes you all the places you want it to. Hope to see you here again before another 13 months are up. Love the image and the fact that you shared it with us. Wonderful to see you here again.

great effect, cool done!

Congrats on your LWITG nod. The light and pattern and bits of detritus stuck in the screen make for a wonderful image. My mother wore glasses for 65 years. After she developed cataracts, she underwent an operation to replace the lenses and was able to throw away her glasses. Silver linings and all. Good luck with that and its nice to see you posting again.