79

It was almost three months past that I stopped on our main street to photograph doorway 79, one of the two doorways in the former Federal building. Without looking up the information again, I believe that this building once housed local branches of both the Canadian Postal Service and Inland Revenue. The property no longer serves federal functions and now lies within the private sector.

Obviously, I have passed this doorway many times, but I stopped to take a picture back in September because I was drawn to the shapes and textures on that particular day and also probably because I am always keeping my eye out for grist, no matter how familiar, for my little blogging mill.

I experimented with styling (or developing) and three very different images emerged from the same original photo.

I put the three versions in Blogger Drafts way back then but never got around to posting. For awhile I have been thinking that I would like to add another variation with snow; it's a Canadian thing after all. Yesterday was the day. There was snow, and I was downtown, so I took another photo. The snow was all out front on the railing, so I had to compose differently to include it. Once again, I developed two versions from the same basic image.

The post is finally out of a long lingering in the Drafts folder.