Liberty 2008

Liberty 2008
Originally uploaded by schauba

It's been a while since I've posted. Sorry about that but life has been hectic lately. Part of the hecticness involved a trip to Washington DC. The upside is that I got several good shots while I was there and this is one of them.

They were doing some construction on the street in front of the Lincoln Memorial and I happened to look up through the chain link fence to see it . Considering the aggressive infringements on civil liberties over the past eights, the symbolism seemed obvious so I snapped a couple of frames.

The original was in color, but I thought the black and white made emphasized the starkness I was looking for. I made a few other adjustments, to contrast, blackness, and exposure. I also cranked up the vignetting. I love vignetting.