It was actually kind of comical, she kept demanding I tell her what the photos were going to be used for and insisting I had "NO RIGHT" to take pictures of her store. I told her I didn't intend to sell them and I wasn't going to use them to make her store look bad - the rest is irrelevant and as long as I didn't set foot on her property, she really couldn't demand anything of me. All the while I'm looking at that sign that says "except" and trying not to laugh, which would surely further enrage her.

The store used to be a gas station and is one of the few buildings left that predates the "killer" Hurricane of 1926 that leveled most of SE Florida.

The softness is intentional and a result of PP - two layers, B&W base with Gaussian blur color overlay.