Flatiron Building

This picture is obviously of the Flatiron Building near Madison Square. It took me a couple tries to get the right contrast on this picture while printing in the dark room. This is my final print, my favorite one. I knew there were clouds in the sky but I couldn't really see anything in the sky in my first couple of prints. However, I was too scared that if I exposed it for longer than the building would come out too dark. So I used a little stick that has a little black piece of paper on the top (name?? dodger?? or something) and placed it over the building in the picture after exposing it for the first 6 seconds (with the lens all the way open), and exposed it for another 6 seconds, which only affected the sky this time - allowing clouds to come out. I like this picture because it seems so dark and dreary and old-fashioned, which is what happens on such a cloudy day, and which was how the building looked on this day.