Very great shot my friend !!!

The pattern of the cracks makes me think of a map of the USA...lots of states to include Florida:-) Great eye Harry. This is a photo I can stare at and see more and more the longer I look.

Andrea and you take marvelous and beautiful images of cracked pavement. In this case the paint has faded rather then cracked away and still has straight edges. It's interesting how the cracks in the pavement are relatively regular along the stripe. The cracks run like a latter up the stripes and spread out in larger more irregular shapes to the sides. Beautiful light that defines the cracks very clearly. Excellent capture!

Fractals splendid books on this soil, cracks due to fatigue of the coating under constant bearings on these cars paint stripes.!!!

Claude is right , it looks as if the weight of the paint has caused the fracture!

I like what Bill said; the pattern of the cracks is like a map of the U.S., and those slightly weaving lines are just like the way the state boundaries weave due to rivers that are used for natural borders. What a great find; I wonder if the center line is on a fault line and the cracking is due to the sides being jiggled away? Excellent capture, Harry! I especially like the light reflecting on the pavement.

Harry, there's no way i'll be able to comment on all the uploads I've missed since the end of June, at least not in any short-term period; so I'll skip around in my next few sessions. If I can eventually cover all the ground I missed, that would be great; but for now I'll skip, so I can get a representative sampling. (As you know, I see everything regardless; so I do have a sense of all you've done.) This, incidentally, was the "next upload" after my last comment, so at least I'm in sequence, to begin with. Several people commented on this shot's resemblance to cartographic borders, and also the borders found in nature itself: I wholly agree with the comparison. In grad school, I studied "nature's patterns, present in art"---the idea wasn't that artists imitate nature so much as artists naturally seek those patterns, because those patterns are so ingrained into our inner mind. And, however we find them, they'll appear constantly in our art because those patterns are woven into the very nature of existence. So why should the tension cracks of a street be different from those of a canyon, ravaged landscape or shoreline (with all its tectonic canyons, fractures, etc)? What makes this stand out is the beautiful clarity of those cracks and craters, how you've composed the shot to capture a big 'country' of craters, where the crates bulge out from the yellow lines, making a kind of island. You've composed it so that the bulge is in the center of the shot---on a diagonal---and the cleaner pavement surrounds it. Really spot-on composition. And your light is beautiful (with Denise), and there's a beautiful softness to your light that contrasts the graininess of the street. Plus, as you've done in a number of your street shots, you have the sun reflected on an upper portion of the street---beautifully done, Harry. You do this extremely well. It's a dramatic but very subtle shot, beautifully composed, and with a mix of graininess and softness...and all going to prove that "minimalism" is actually quite maximal, if in the hands of the right person. And this proves one of the major lessons of your gallery---that "known beautiful subjects" aren't any more beautiful than the least expected subjects---ie a cracked street can be as beautiful and powerful as a rose---that beauty is everywhere, as long as one uses their eye keenly enough. A great example of that. Terrific and consummate work. And 'naked' too---if I took this shot, I'd do all kinds of transforming postwork, for the simple reason that I wouldn't be able to make it sing otherwise. Your postwork is subtle, very loyal to the subject, and highly and carefully fine-tuned. It's harder that way---and more risky: And man, you did it masterfully.