About the Image(s)

I took this photograph with my Nikon Z5, F14, 1/200 second, ISO 125, 17mm. I have been concentrating on some high contrast photography this summer. The Landmark Center in St. Paul was built in 1902 and was originally a US Post Office, Court House, and Custom House. It is listed on United States National Register of Historic Places, and is the place that depression era gangster Alvin Karpis, and John Dillinger's girlfriend Billie Frechette were tried in the 1930s. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, who was the Supervising Architect of the US Treasury Department. I took this photo at 9:04 AM knowing that I would get real bright sunshine on the building, meaning I would get good shadows on the windows. For edits I used a pre-set in Photoshop Express to go from color to a high contrast black and white. I took out as much tilt as I could with a vertical distortion edit, but this was the as good as I could get it. I could not get any further away that I was, as I was standing in a part of St. Paul that is 125 years old, and the buildings are very close together.'