Originally the Indianapolis Sears Roebuck & Co. building on the corner of Massachusetts Ave, E. Vermont and North Alabama Streets.

I was wondering why this photo seemed to get regular hits on my flickr account? I checked the flickr reference stats and a website by “agilitynut” with a collection of “Indiana Art Deco Architecture” has a link to my photo saying just “For more, see This Website”

I didn’t take this photo with any intent for it to become an example of art deco architecture. I walk past this building everyday without taking much notice but one fine day I just thought it looked “cooler” than usual. I grabbed the camera and walked back to take a shot. At the time I remember thinking ‘this is awkward, everyone on sidewalk is looking at me wondering why I am taking a photo of this and this photo is probably going to look stupid because I am down here on the sidewalk and that is way up there and the building will look like it’s falling over backwards’… Fortunately, some playing with “Filter” & “Lens Correction” tricks in PS CS5 came to rescue this from a terrible case of parallax.

So what to learn… if the lighting looks cool it’ll probably be cool in the photo too, and, when struck that something has a special look to it, a little extra effort to get a shot may be worthwhile…