Love/Fancy

This graffiti "valentine" inscribed on a table at Starbucks is a little fancier than average.

Camera: Canon EOS T3, Lensbaby Muse with macro kit Procession: PSE, basic adjustments

Poverty

Graffiti is emblematic of poverty. Framing was added in Lo-Mob.

The highway underpass on a dreary day...Using Posterize, Texturizer and Accented Edges brings out the urban grime and grunge.

I have to admit that there often aren't a lot of photo ops on the days that I work. I get on the highway, drive to an industrial area of Hartford to an isolated concrete office builiding; then reverse the process in the evening. So I've fallen back on an old stand-by: literally a stand-by, as these trains haven't moved for over a month. I liked the image on the right. To me, it looks like a piece of pizza; my husband thinks it's a party hat on its side. I used the Glowing Edges flter, then inverted it to make a sort of coloring book effect that brings out the playful graphic nature of the graffitti.

Posterize brings out the the edgy urban nature of the battered train.

The lowering sun cast the shadow of a piece of construction equipment against the side of the train that sits next to the parking lot at my office building.

The watercolor filter brings out the bold graphics and grungy nature of the graffitti.

Several of the cars of the train that's parked behind the parking lot of my office building sport colorful graffitti.