About the Image(s)

It was captured in downtown Chicago while touring the city about two years ago. This alley/small street caught my attention because it seems to be very forbidden, which I found attractive. I thought of it as a deeply thin valley surrounded by mountainous buildings. Through Photoshop, it was vertically aligned, palette enhanced by NIK Color adjustments, and some Gaussian blur was applied. Settings: Fujifilm X-T5, 16mm from a 16-80mm Fuji lens, f/4.5, 1/125sec, ISO400, Exp -0.7, No flash.