Inspiration through playing

I've always been attracted to the graphic side of life. Many of my college projects included various forms of design in my photography. Photographing chrome (back when cars had chrome bumpers) and printing the images in black and white and then photographing buildings. Not the whole building but just certain elements using the building's architecture and the light and shadows to create design. Here are a couple images I took while in Rochester in August. Today I allowed my mind to wander and take a few moments to look at the images I had taken. These two jumped out from the folder full of landscapes of Lake Ontario and a butterfly garden at the zoo and some animals.

The one building that obviously is being demolished. I was taken by the textures and colors and how it's kind of tower-like. I finished it as a black and white for the graphic effect of the textures and patterns. This image makes me wonder who the last people were that walked those floors. Notice the top window is open.  Guess someone needed some air.

This image is a light fixture at a train station. I love the round shape agains the angled beams. I finished this as a "lith", or lithograph to flatten it out to its basic shapes. That makes an image (or the negative, originally) with blacks and whites, no shades of gray. I can't wait to dive in to the rest of the images and see what I can do! I love to play!  What have you done with your favorite images?