Usually I don’t get bogged down in any post work beyond tweaking contrast and saturation (I love a saturated sky) but this shot was an exception.  I had shot it on my way home from work on a whim, my eye having been draw to it because of the dramatic clouds and the bright and round lettering of the graffiti.  The only problem was a pesky telephone cable that stretched through the center of the picture.  I tried various cloning methods to try and cover it up but eventually settled on some tight cropping and rearranging of the composition.  Here’s the original…

Heavy changes but it is balanced a little better sans the telephone poles and cable.  Still learning my way around Gimp, though.  It bugs me that I wasn’t able to really blend in the my pasted area.  :-/