a mediocre photo gets a makeover

on my ride to work the other day, i wanted to catch the tops of the buildings in st. paul just peeking out of the haze covering downtown, but the camera on my phone just didn't capture that. after the fact, though, i felt the line of the road flowing diagonally across the scene and the in-focus elements that framed it vs. out-of-focus elements in the middle gave it a lonely feel.

on the first one, i gave it a "cubist" filter in gimp.


for the second, i applied the "cartoon" filter.


and here's the original.