I'm still leanring that...

...a good shot can be found anywhere. This picture was taken at a clothing boutique in Belmont, NC. On the outside, this place looks very small and intimate. If you look through the window, you can see a small room with clothes on the back wall and clothes on about four racks. When you walk through the door, the register is to your left. If you never venture past the clothing racks, you'd think there was nothing else to the store; however, if you reach the register, you will see a doorway to another room to the right. Thinking there is a little more to the store, you go into the room and find more clothes. You will also find a short staircase that leads to another room. This room is by far the largest of the store and is large enough to be the store itself. I loved just walking through the store wondering what I would do with the space if I owned it (tea house/book store/live must venue all in one).

This picture comes from part of the decor through out the boutique. At the top of the short staircase to left there was a door propped up against the wall with this crescent moon and star. The door was painted in that soft Carolina blue. I would've taken the picture in color but I liked the shade contrast the the shadow behind the moon so much that I decided to go with black and white to emphasize that. After I got my shot, my wife and I navigated back to the front of the store and out. This was part of a day trip as we spent a lot of that day in Belmont. We really loved how it was not very far from Charlotte but felt like a completely different place. We could do a weekend get away there and really feel like we were gone. I love what I am learning about photography and still wonder if there is any limit to what I can teach myself.