This is the other side of the building from "Waiting for Old Friends"

[ceeboy14]

"A Window and a Door"

 

[sleist]

I like this, despite the odd aspect ratio of the crop.
It seems a bit dark - maybe adjust curves a touch to lighten the mid tones?
Straightening subjects like this is always tough. I think I might have gone with getting the verticals more vertical, but sometimes that's just "different" and not so much "better".

 

[ceeboy14]

Unfortunately, that building didn't have a square corner on it...every door, window and stoop was just a bit off kilter. Straighten one thing, you lose the other. I intentionally left it a bit on the dark side as opening up the shadows really didn't alter the overall impact enough to bother.

 

[sleist]

Unfortunately, that building didn't have a square corner on it...every door, window and stoop was just a bit off kilter. Straighten one thing, you lose the other. I intentionally left it a bit on the dark side as opening up the shadows really didn't alter the overall impact enough to bother.

While I would agree on most occasions, your extreme vertical crop almost requires that you get the verticals in plumb.
The horizontals that end up out of alignment will not be noticed as much.

 

[ceeboy14]

Okay...this is about as symmetrical as I can make it. I also opened up the shadows a bit