Trunk of a screwball (literally) house plant. Natural light from one window on the plant, ditto from a different window on the background surface. Converted to B&W, cropped, resized, and adjusted levels in Paint Shop Pro.
Thanks to you all for the encouraging words. I've learned a lot here just playing around with Project #1. Pretty soon I think I'll get brave go on to (drum roll, please) Project #2. I sure hope it's not the one with the word "metaphysics" in the title.
Very cool Russ. I really like the way the light falls on the curves. Great tonal range, and interesting composition, IMO. I think BW is very effective also.