Today I was on a mission for work when I came across this building in downtown Lafayette. As per usual I looked at the corner so that I could return after work to get a picture. An older brick building with some texture makes for a cool picture. Add an ad that takes up half the building and you have a cool idea for a shot. I just had to find the right angle. I originally shot it from across the street. I knew that it looked cool, but I wanted something more. I decided to pull into an empty parking lot to get this shot. I had thought about cropping it to get more of the building, but I really like how this turned out. It just looked weird any other way. This building is near the corner of 9th and Union. I assume it was a grocery store at some point, but I don’t know much about it. A quick Google search turned up nothing. I guess if I knew too much it would ruin some of the mystery of the picture.
This was another HDR image made from six pictures. I set my bracketing to shoot at 1 stop intervals. Combining all six of them had a great effect.
Dave Wegiel Photography 
In recent years, old derelict buildings have been demolished to reveal old Coke murals painted on the sides of next door edifices like this. They are a treasure to local historians and street photographers.
In my town that is.
I was just thinking about how my hometown in the last ten years has torn down all the buildings with character to them. It is a shame. The next time that I go home I would have loved to have shot some of the older buildings that I used to look at as a kid.