One thing I can say about your photography of shoes is that you can capture the inner sole and present it in clear detail. Thank you

Very clear and detailed photos, my friend!

Rod, in his comment on your powerful recent post of a homeless man sleeping against a building, wrote that your abandoned shoes show the sadness of our times. (Something like that.) I never thought about that before! All your shoe shots and I didn't think that these could be from someone down and out, who is now searching for shoes (as opposed to someone who threw these out simply because they were worn)...When I thought about why that never occurred to me, the reason was that you get such fine detail in these, and present them with such a design sense, that one can forget that these could be abandoned by a homeless person, or who has little money, etc...

In any case, this is yet another in your long series powerful of abandoned shoes: Your detail in the gravel is striking as always (little blue and gray flat stones can be seen, with twigs, etc---all scattered in just enough protrusion to be present, but not take over the shot). I love the detain on the shoes, and the bottom shot shows us the nearly decimated side, all eaten away; and an actually not-too-worn sole. (Lol at Mike's 'sole' joke.) And the top shot shows decent shoes, but also decay. Really fine work on details, and on the layout of the twigs, etc. These have dignity while also being 'strewn'...