I captured this image on a business trip to Philly.  I was drawn to the great texture in the ivy, and captured a quick shot with my trust G9 (a fancy point-and-shoot).  In retrospect, I wish that  I’d had my “big” camera with the tripod to as to avoid some technical shortcomings from shooting with my hand-held  G9, but better an imperfect image than nothing.  I’m not sure whether I prefer the monochrome image above or the color image below.  Please let me know what you think in the comments.

Edit Aug. 16, 2010 to fix my previous failure to crop the images after performing a perspective correction in Lightroom.