I need your brains

I am a huge fan of my city here and love the opportunity to show people a side of it that isn't usually seen. When most people think of our city they think of steel mills, pollution and poverty but many don't know that there is much more here than meets the eye. Beauty is all around us in this city. Steeped in history, it has been the source of decay and degradation for many years. In the last decade or so we have seen a rebirth begin. It was slow at first and is now picking up momentum. We are seeing the renewal of places like our waterfront really take shape now. Once a place to ignore and avoid as it was just run down and simply a parking lot for boats, the city has seen it redeveloped and relaunched as a place fit to spend time and take the family. This love of the city has combined with my photo addiction to fill what free time that blogging doesn't. Photography has taught me to seek the hidden beauty within many things previously ignored. There's nothing out there that a good picture can't be taken of. The joy of the hunt is the key and if it became too much like work I probably wouldn't do it as much. I have thousands of pictures that fill my hard drive and various discs and for the most part, I enjoy looking at them and have no specific use in mind. Every now and then I hear of a photo contest and decided to go digging through the heap to see what I can come up with. The problem is that, like a parent who thinks their kid is cuter than other kids I have trouble narrowing it down, so it's time to appeal to the masses here. I need help picking two of these pictures for a photo contest. I dug through my pile of files to narrow it down to these two pics and now I need help paring it down to two. Let me know in the comments which ones you would pick and we'll start a photo scrumm of sorts. Ask your friends, ask your family, ask the mail carrier or whoever is silly enough to come to your door.

For those that help I offer my thanks and for those that don't.....well that's your choice now isn't it? Enjoy the pics and enjoy your weekend and thanks as always for stopping by and enduring my weirdness.