Figure 1 – Leon’s Mens and Boys’ Wear, Charleston, SC, (c) DE Wolf 2014

I’m in need of a mood boaster today; so I am going to post my favorite photograph from my recent vacation.  I worked a little outside my usual workflow on this trip.  Usually I take my pictures and then, at night, I work them up.  So I tend to stay current. I took my tablet with me and was planning on processing my images with LightRoom instead of PhotoShop; but I wound up without a way of transferring the images from my camera onto my computer.  This had two consequences.  First, I had to keep the images in my head – constantly mulling them over unil I got home.  And second, when I got home I had this large stockpile to go through.  It kind of puts everything in a different perspective or light.

On this particular day, it was raining, and I had left my camera in the car, while we had lunch.  Heading back to the car in a drizzle I was struck by this faded painted sign on the wall of a building and thought yes, this is a picture.  One point about cloudy days is that you can think pastels; you can think Kodachrome.  So I went back to the car; hesitated for a moment as to which lens to use, went out, and took the picture of Figure 1.  Don’t know about you, but I love it.  And I knew that I would love the results as soon as I looked at the LCD screen on the back of my camera as I was meticulously removing water drops.

I’ve been fairly strict with myself about processing – pretty much doing it in the order that the images were taken and as a result this was an image that I had to wait to process. For me it was worth the wait.  Oh and as for all the blah blah blah that you don’t care about.  Taken with my EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens, IS on, ISO 800, no compensation, at 41 mm, 1320th sec. f/9.0.