Ancient images

Well.. it says it so no title is necessary

Beauty

Here are two of my oldest... and favorite images.  The first; the back of a traffic sign shot somewhere in downtown MPLS 7+ years ago.  Have never seen a road sign since that contains the letters B & E in this order.  I love it for it's message as well as the scratches and decay from use.  


The second.. from Kyoto Japan 9+ years ago.  Per a friend, this is the japanese kanji for beauty.  The symbol/word is raised 1/2 an inch above the surface. In both cases the color has been pushed into the orange/scarlet range from the base image ... which in both cases was a dull metallic rust-ish color.  Saturate one color and they all come along for the ride.