Splinters & Cracked Boards

I regularly shop at an “old style” butcher shop located in a little town 20 miles north of where I live. This town was once a thriving mill town in years gone by. The shop is located in an area with many aging vacant buildings. For the last 3 months, I’ve noticed a building across the parking lot that had boarded windows. One, of course was deteriorating. The cracked boards and splinters looked like a “distant urban skyline”… to me. Yesterday, I decided to photograph it. After viewing it in LR, I decided to express it as a B&W. The image reminded me of developing and printing photographs in the wet darkroom. Because of that, I wanted to create a traditional “cold tone” black & white image similar to the prints I used to make “back in the day”. It was a fun exercise, and I could actually “smell” those darkroom chemicals. I believed that I achieved that Tri-X look.