Bravo! Very different! Reminds me of my little sisters shoes when we were small. Me and my bro used to hate how many shoes had. She was a regular little Emelda marcos! Great job on the colour selection.

bet she was proud to wear them... a girl's gotta have her closet full of barbies! errr, shoes! well done :]

L ~ exactly ... the pink here is actually the colour on the real shoe, which was otherwise a dingy grey white (it was lost, or washed ashore at our dog park by the Mississippi River between MPLS and STP, its battered condition added pathos to this odd encounter), and left sitting atop an old sand-strewn tree stump on an end point of a penninsula (BTW it's actually the same spot where Digimon later made those shots of a bald eagle which he recently posted) a sandy beach with some gravel and rocks mixed in it were the background. One of my pet categories is found-objects or interesting displaced litter, they are mundane everyday shots that are different ~ in this case it was posed like a classic and yet I never touched it myself, so how I loved this. I did some tonal adjustments, but nothing you would not have to do in a darkroom just to get a decent print from any negative. I had a project to make a monochrome but the rules allowed keeping a bit of a single colour, desaturating everything else really did not alter the real effects, then colorizing the pink to it's essential shade made sure it was a single colour ... creative handling, a shot that is different - and still an unprimped candid shot quite honest to the original real scene!

Of course Schindler's List comes to mind, as do old photgraphs from the 40's that are colored. There was another film we saw that was all BW except for a red ball? A film about a train I think, can't remember the title...ANYWAY! Love the presentation, and the choices of color/and lack there of! Fun composition!!

In the salon, even with a somewhat less tradition-bound judge, the large print that came out pretty well, still did not fare very well. Some of the photographers do like it a lot, and even had a couple of ideas on ways to try and make it more drastic ... although really, none of that would have really generated a more sensible sensory message .. but to the photo judge, it is just a picture of one whole shoe, and it's background story or setting &c, do little to change that fact. He did have a point there, and it is food for thought for all of us.