About a year ago I disposed of a defunct laptop. Having read articles about the potential for old data files that you thought had been wiped from the hard drive prior to disposal to be ‘retrieved’; and knowing that the laptop contained Health Service data there was only one solution. Pulverize the hard drive. That required stripping down the laptop piece by piece.
A few days ago I was on one of my regular missions to reduce the volume of rubbish that continues to accumulate despite all my best intentions and came across two circuit boards that for some reason I had retained.
I took one look at one of those boards and reached for the camera. I propped the board on a desk near a window took a few frames and half an hour later, after a bit of experimentation, the image you see above stared me in the eye. I liked what I saw.
Do you see a pair of eyes, with irises and pupils? I did. It was a fluke of the lighting that one of them turned out darker than the other. You just never know where that next image is going to come from.
LensScaper 
Yeah eye’s or a cassette.
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Now why didn’t I think of a cassette!
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Cool shot Andy. I have a drawer full of old hard drives waiting for me to destroy. Never thought about photographing the old boards. Great idea.
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Thanks Len – your next project perhaps?
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I always found those patterns to be fascinating. Nice work.
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Thanks Ken – you better now?
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I’ve got about an 80% charge, good enough to function. thanks for asking.
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Creative image Andy. Eye like it. Sorry.
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Eye’m glad you like it Steven!
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I definitely see eyes…very creative Andy. I would have never thought to photograph a circuit board. I need to start thinking outside the box 🙂
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Thanks Edith. I think I must have kept the circuit board with the idea of photographing it, but I had forgotten that by the time I found it! Until I looked. Most circuit boards are frankly uninteresting – but I just saw two eyes, or lenses stopped down, or as someone else has pointed out – a cassette. I doubt there will be any more like this!
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Very clever, Andy.
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