Six Windows

@Betsy Barron: Because there is no apparent rhyme or reason as to the placement of the green and beige paint, my guess is that they probably just ran out of paint and didn't get around to finishing.

@Judy: The windows stair step upward to the right so it seemed natural to place them to the right in the composition. One of the compositional elements that I like to use when it is appropriate is the concept of negative space which means you place your subject in one of the "sweet spots" using the Rule of Thirds (or even to the extreme edge of the frame) and then let the area with no subject (the negative space) fill the rest of the frame. I think that makes for a dynamic composition. Arnold Newman was a master at using negative space very effectively (check out his portrait of Igor Stravinsky seated at a piano). Had I placed the windows to the left, I would have gotten the back edge of the building and the "stuff" that was behind the building in the frame and I didn't want that. I went back and forth about including the vertical line in the composition, but had I cropped it out, the image would be very "skinny" and lacking in negative space. I like to crop my images to a standard aspect ratio as much as I can as that makes them easier to print later on. The building looks like it tips a bit because I had to tilt the camera slightly as I was standing on the sidewalk and the building was tall and close. The fact that I was at an angle to the side of the building also contributed to the tilt effect. I don't own a tilt-shift lens (yet) so I just put up with the tilt and straighten it in PS if I think it's too much to deal with.