While unboxing my iPhone headset in front of an LCD display, I noticed the newton rings in the plastic packaging that the headset ships in and thought it might make an interesting photograph. I set the headset in the plastic packaging in front of my 22 inch Cinema Display showing a plain white screen (photoshop with blank file, hit f twice and tab to hide the palettes) and set my Sony T30 to macro mode. Since the light coming from the LCD display is polarized, the stress lines in the plastic are visible as newton rings. To fill in some details I used my 60 gig iPod screen for a bit of fill light. You can see the reflection of the iPod screen in the wire mesh of the ear piece.
