Lovely bit of Monday grim

I had to deliver a session way over on the other side of campus this afternoon and as it's a part of campus filled with assorted old, large houses that are now owned by the Uni, I took my camera with me in the hope of finding a nice bit of architectural grim to blip.

I've processed this by duplicating the background layer, adding a Gaussian blur to the copied layer and then erasing parts of that layer from the centre of the image, hopefully to lead the eye through the gate and towards the door.

In the end it was a close-run thing between this image and another one which was a complete experiment. Still not sure if I made the right decision or not....

Please view larger grim

Edit: In response to zahrasha's comment, the alternative image for today can be seen here.