I took this yesterday after lunch, it was very windy and very cold. I wasn’t paying as close attention to what I was doing, so the pictures weren’t very good. I was kind of going for a grungy, urban thing while taking the picture, so I tried to play that up a bit with the contrasty black and white. I added the horizontal grain to cover the fact that this isn’t exactly in focus. I don’t think I’ll try this one again, there are other places in town which are more interesting.

There aren’t many of these big old neon signs left. This one isn’t in great shape, but at least it is still there. The store used to be a drive through, those are a dying breed as well.

This is another one I will need to reshoot, once I figure out a better vantage point.

I’m not thrilled with the framing on this one. I think it would look better if I had the bottom of the wall, and if I were standing further back and more to the left I could get at least some of the next door building. I’ll probably try it again over Winter break when there are fewer people in town.

I’m trying to find an artist way to use the Polaroid. These pictures are not what I’m looking for. I was trying to get the flash to bounce off the window in the background. At $2.50 each, these are expensive experiments.