Every city has a few buildings that stand out and each interesting building is usually surrounded by lots of buildings that just don't get noticed. I've at least noticed most of the buildings in our neighborhood, but sometimes I'll look at one for the first time.

There's a building nearby that's about three stories tall and two of those stories are made up of dull wood paneling. This ugly building doesn't add much to the neighborhood, but it's kind of interesting in some ways, like: what were they thinking when they covered so much of it with wood? I used a retinex effect to bring out some of the contrast in this photo. The large surface wood surface area is kind of unusual and it's kind of neat how the diagonal pattern interacts with the horizontal roof line and clear sky. One neat thing about living in a city is that there are plenty of buildings like this that have their own undiscovered charm.