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First off, I don't normally comment on fellow admins' work since 99/100 times I have scathing comments to make and as mama always said, "If you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all." <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/let…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Lick)" />

That all said, I happen to like this photo. I'm typically in favor of B&W photography in general, though, but that's not exclusively why I like this work. My first thought when seeing it was that it happened to follow the rule of thirds pretty well. It's not perfect but it's good enough to feel like there is balance to the photo even though there is a huge dark building covering up the entire left-hand side.

What I also like is the varied shades of gray. Our focal point is the lightest shade of gray in the whole photograph, while the pavement is a darker shade and the building to the left is even darker still, and then the sky above is also a shade of gray. Generally everything works well to draw one's eye to the doorway.

I also want to add that the image has a sense of bleakness to it that is kinda cool. The totally beat up nature of everything in this photo is well juxtaposed to the smooth sky above it. I dig the small hint of light showing on the top-right of the white building, too. It implies some sense of "hope" in a bleak world. Kinda neat, even if it was a happy accident.

The biggest change I would like to see, though, would mostly be with contrast/exposure. I was once told by a talented photographer that the big "trick" to good black and white photography was to make sure you had a pure white and a pure black somewhere in the photo. I see pure black in this photo but I don't see pure white. I think if you adjusted the contrast slightly you could make the focal building into a pure-white shape (or closer to it) and that would simply help emphasize the focal point.

So after all those hundreds of words, all I have left to say is "nice job." <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/c/c…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Cool)" />