366 Days of 2012, Day 195 - Walked Home Barefoot

I am amazed how often I see shoes, either a pair or one on its own, in the most odd places.

Immediately I wonder, what is the story here? With shoes on power-lines I imagine a kid's prank or maybe a school boy bully. A single stiletto in a gutter conjures more grievous thoughts. A pair of flip-flops by a creek might mean someone walking down a shallow stream and forgetting where they started. To me abandoned shoes alway come with a story and more often than not, a story of my own imagining.

To capture this image I used a small aperture as I wanted the gorgeous details in the clouds to be a dramatic backdrop and found a piece of open sky as the negative space in which to place the shoes.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 195 - Walked Home Barefoot'. 1/320sec f/16 ISO-640 70mm