“Springs Kum&Go” taken 6/19/2020, edited & posted 6/20
A sign at a “Kum & Go” convenience store in Colorado Springs. (Hey, I didn’t name the place, that’s just the way they spell it.) They use the ampersand symbol for a bunch of stuff, even their door handles were big ampersands. I actually took this photo yesterday when stopping to grab a snack and thought the Colorado Springs painting on it was pretty cool. Other side had a bunch of generic slogans.
“No Entry” taken 8/21/2006 Boston, MA
Another new look at an old favorite. I completely reprocessed this one, starting from only a relatively low res JPG I took in June 2006 on an old Nikon of a photogenic alley I stumbled across while walking Boston’s Freedom Trail. My original attempt at this was very similar, but this time I did a single exposure monochrome tonemap instead of just desaturating my original exposure, added some lightroom magic, then cutout & pasted the unaltered street sign. I also made an even narrower 16×9 ratio vertical crop, and a 5×7 ratio horizontal crop, having trouble deciding which I liked. Ended up coming back around to the original composition with just a little bit of cropping to emphasize the framing of the street light at the top.
