Manhattan Street (Posterized Photo)

Manhattan Street (Posterized Photo) Originally uploaded by randubnick

This image began as a failed photograph, taken during my recent trip to New York City. I was trying to take a picture of a New York side street, and tripped or moved, so I got a photo of a bunch of scaffolding, with a small bit of the street in one corner of the image, and somewhat out of focus at that. But sometimes it is fun to try to rescue or transform a photograph, and I certainly had nothing much to lose in this case. So last night I cropped the image, eliminating the scaffolding. Then I decided to posterize the image because sometimes that creates interesting effects when a photo has a soft focus.