the door that i missed

Unfortunately this image was not anything that i wanted it to be. It was simply a quick shot as I was walking down Fillmore street in San Francisco. After reviewing it on my computer, I wanted to go back and re-take it- but unfortunately this door art no longer exists. This is a common theme I have noticed in SF. These amazing street art pieces come up for a short period of time before they are either painted over or changed with something new. I've seen it many times. In this case, I didn't get back to the door in time to re-take the shot before it had been changed to something else.
So the shot I took had good framing and the light was perfect (i love the way the doorway and the light serves as a double-frame for the artwork) but I shot it in JPEG so I had limited options when going into the digital darkroom for the black and white conversion.
The original image was also slightly out of focus so I had to do a significant amount of sharpening to the JPEG to get the pixels tightened up. In doing so I got a bit of a grainy feel to the image and I decided to go with a high contrast b/w conversion in order to not only hide some of the graininess (which i kinda liked.. but it was way too much after the sharpening) but also bring out the light being cast and push back the doorway. The photo was taken mid-day.. probably around 2pm on a very bright San Francisco afternoon. I really wish I could re-take this image. As a result, I find myself photographing more and more street art because I see it and think about how it will probably be gone soon.
Looking back I realize that the doorframe is way too dark and I should probably try to bring back some of the detail in those blacks. Oh well, its not even the shot I wanted to begin with.