Thank you, everyone. This is an old shack smack dab in the middle of the lawn of a high-tech dairy farm...I came across it on a cloudy afternoon, and as I was taking some images, the sun peeked out for just a moment. I think that piece of fortune lends to the detail and the contrast between the sky and the subject.
Post processing was fairly simple...no crop(!), unsharp mask, hue/sat adj layer for the dutone, levels, curves, border.
seriously post-challenge:
yay! validated, too!
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Beautiful shot, nice composition, and mother nature really came through with the sky. To my eye the building seems a bit oversharpened agains the softness of the sky.