Photoshop magic
This is why there are not many “bad” pictures when you have Photoshop. You can always take some blurry old thing and turn it into something beautiful.
Before: this is a pretty useless picture. It’s not a bad composition except for that building jutting into the frame at the top (that’s really the left of the picture; I left it oriented wrong because that’s how I used it for the distortion in PS). It’s too blurry to use though and the coloring is kind of blah, although if it were sharp the coloring could be changed to make it more interesting. But as is, it’s not worth anything.
And after:
This would be really pretty overlaid on top of another picture, 
with the opacity lowered so that the other layer showed through. These effects were accomplished by duping the bottom layer and filling the background with black; then going to Layer 1 and using a soft brush to roughly erase the street, snow, and buildings (so that the black background showed through–doesn’t have to be perfect or exact), changing the opacity, and then using
the distortion filter in a few different ways: polar coordinates, shear, and twirl. Then duping and/or re-layering and changing the opacity on the new layer(s) again. I just took some ice-skating shots and I bet these would look really nice on them. I’ll have to try it.
I could play with Photoshop all.day.long. I need to find a bag of unmarked untraceable bills so that I can start doing that.