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Andri Janett wrote...
plus: The composition is excellent, you have a very good eye! minus: The sharpness sort of... its a little bit distracting. (from the Plus-Minus Comment group) Did you do any postprocessing? Since it is sharp on one side but soft on the other.

axel hydre wrote...
plus: ___You've captured the peeling paint and the general washed out tones very well here - the purple curtain and the brighter box add a welcome touch of humanity. minus: ___The angles don't look quite right - the window edges seem more or less perpendicular but the wall projection and the drainpipe both look like they should be rotated right - gives it an 'odd' feel. It could be that these items are not really square with each other but I'd be tempted to straighten the major elements and let the windows hang where they will :-) (from the Plus-Minus Comment group)

Tomas wrote...
plus: I like the way you have combined apparent symmetry (the equal sized windows) with a variation which only becomes apparant once the viewer looks closer (they're all different). I agree with aj1575 that you have an excellent eye for composition. minus: A couple of minor points. I find the fact that part of wall is not rendered confuses the symmetry (was this row of windows repeated further down the building? was there a part of it where the wall looked the same way across the image?). Also, I think I would have been tempted to crop the image so the space to the right of the right window was the same width as the space to the left of the left window (but this is really nit picking, I know) (from the Plus-Minus Comment group)

yabbox wrote...
thanks all for your comments. The unrendered wall is separate to the building behind, I like the way it added to the overall decay and densely populated scene. The photo wasn't quite straight, I rotated it 0.7 degrees and equalled the wall space on left and right for you SunnyUK! (see below), but I think it's the leaning shutters that make it look skewed. aj1575, the blur is a recent defect on that digital camera, all photos had it and is really annoying. Actually this shot had a fourth window to the left, but I had to crop that off completely because the blur was even worse that side. I have since bought a new camera but wish I could have my Minolta back as it deals with light so much better than the Olympus. Any ideas why it happens, maybe the lens got knocked off centre or something?