It’s a cool spring day in SEVA, and I have to cut the grass. Oh. Joy. Probably my least favorite task ever, and it’s pollen season.

Today’s photo is the on floor. Literally. This is the floor of the MacArthur Mall in Norfolk, Virginia. The colors, lighting, and pattern caught my eye, so I tilted the phone a little and snapped it. During processing I boosted the colors and increased the contrast a bit to get what you see today.

I took today’s photo in a deli in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I wondered why this car grill was hanging on the wall at first, but then I understood.

Sometimes something catches my eye, and I snap the photo without really thinking. I thought I had done a decent job of capturing this, but when I looked at it afterwards, I noticed a few problems.

I had to do a bit more to this image than I normally do before I could post it: I had to straighten it and increase the color saturation a bit until it looked how I remembered.

I know this is my second cat photo, but I promise you I’m not a cat lady. I know people who have decorated their house in “early cat;” everywhere you look you see a cat. It could be a photo, drawing, painting, or sculpture, but it’s always a cat. My house isn’t like that. I have a cat, and she has a cat tree, and that’s it. No wall-to-wall cats.

Today’s photo is recent. It’s the rear window of an SUV decorated with a cat decal, and the cat’s tail is the windshield wiper. The original photo, and the car, were dull and lifeless.

I converted the original image to B/W, darkened the picture, and finally, boosted the contrast so only black and white were left. It sounds simple. It is simple. The difficulty lies in seeing something routine and knowing it can be so much more.