Indeed there is
Taken from the Tour Bus as we move west from City Center. At the time I saw the beauty of the two buildings and didn't register that street pole and smaller lamp. With the bus moving quickly, I had to take the picture without thinking too much about it. When the pictures were developed, I wanted to crop the picture to get rid of that intrusive pole. I also thought about a long session of Paint Shop to laboriously erase the pole's presence from the picture. To create something pleasant.

But after sharing the photos with friends and family, several people commented on the almost abstract balance in this one. I remembered, too, how R. Crumb had a photo album of nothing but street lamps and utility poles and trash cans and other bits of ugly, urban street furniture that we all subconsciouly ignore. It was the inclusion of these details in his drawings, Crumb explained, that created the artistic whole of his vision.
There is something about the picture though. For one thing, it is the offices of The Belfast Telegraph. I like newspaper offices and often hang out with the reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle during lunch hour at the Chieftain, corner on Fifth and Howard.

So, the picture looks pretty good as newsprint.
Now the pure lines and spaces of the picture are starting to come through. Especially the details on the second building's roofline. Still the whole of that building is too dark here.
The windows on the first building are still lovely, even sensuous. Notice how that pole is emerging as the picture's anchoring element.
But where were we? Perhaps it would be nice to have a page of photographs with some relevance to the history of Horslips?
Belfast Telegraph Office
Belfast Telegraph Office: Newsprint
Belfast Telegraph Office: Embossed
Belfast Telegraph Office: Psychedelic
Belfast Telegraph Office: Neon
I am very close to finding what it is about what I first saw in these buildings on that bus tour: the strength in line and space on the left with subtle details hinted at in the second building and the luminous, liquid beauty of the windows and street sign clock on the right.

I may continue working on this image for a time.
Belfast Telegraph Office: Normal