This image is a great example of taking a relatively mundane original shot and turning it into something interesting, while deviating pretty heavily from my normal approach to editing. I leaned into the chaotic and came up with a borderline absurdist/surrealistic image as a result, between the Dutch tilt, making a bunch of elements backwards (I take far too much diabolical satisfaction from the wrong way sign, in particular), and giving it that slightly bleached, over-sharpened vibe. I normally try to avoid that in my own work, but in this case it also provides the nice side effect of helping to mask some issues that have annoyed me tremendously in previous weeks' images. Overall, this feels like the photo equivalent of destroying the sandcastle you spent ages building on the beach, in terms of that primal sense of enjoyment from wrecking a once-fine structure.
EXIF data:
1/250, f/8, ISO 200
200mm focal length
1/250, f/8, ISO 200
200mm focal length