Phil Price, a photographer whose blog I’ve been following for about a year now, challenged readers to take a photo of his and process it to their hearts’ delight.

I finished mine last week, but didn’t get it posted in time for the midway point of his friendly competition:

I see from Phil’s post on the results so far that my instincts run concurrent to a lot of his readers.

I tried couple of different ideas, but kept coming back to a simple contrast theme that essentially reverses the original’s color scheme. I used a couple of free Lightroom presets I found online – a Moriyama-inspired b/w preset for the sky and the Creative Catalyst 12 preset from Wonderland Presets to create the stunning blue building.

It’s been a fun experiment to participate in and I thank Phil for letting folks have a go at his photo. I’m interested to see what others come up with.

Phil’s original: