I didn't took this image with the challenge in mind but I liked it and wanted to submit. Googling pavement and classic novel directed me to this quote of Les Misérables. The quote is taken as suggestion that the narrator on the novel is Hugo himself and as a reference to his time in exile. When I read this description I found a deeper personal connection between the image and the quote. I had been two weeks in Croatia where I got married, and when I took the picture I was leaving this beautiful land and adoptive family. During this time i also was able to spend time with my family that manage to go from Argentina for the wedding. So Hugo's words touched me deeply, as a foreigner in a strange land longing for not one but two homelands, my native Argentina and the adopted Croatia.
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Lovely how the street fades to blankness. the bus is only just entering the frame... we can't see its wheels so it appears to float.
The soul is just water on asphalt, bleak but composed and presented in such a lovely way. I have a feeling I like this photo more than I would like the book. I'm sure it's better than the musical, at least! 9
I'm bumping this to 10 and putting it in my art gallery. To continue the exposition, I hang things in my gallery if I feel they are independent works of art. For example, I could publish this in a literary magazine and it would fit right in.
beautiful. I would guess bvy, but I'm not sure he has been in Croatia lately. it is the black and whiteness, the traffic, the passing, the drain, the puddle, the light. 9
A photo that I not only like (which would earn you an eight and a babbling technical explanation) but that further strikes me on some primal level. So I can't quite explain why I'm giving it a ten. But that's kind of the point.
i'm sorry, i really do not get any sense of Les Miserables from this image
i get there's a wet spot on the road, but this just screams shoehorn to me.
a 2 is what you get, 4601.
I like this shot very much, I love the quote but it does not send me to Les Miserables. Although the puddle in the middle of the road reminds me of Hugo's magnificent drawing starting from a spot of coffee.
7
A great minimalist interpretation, a brave and successful attempt as well. I only wish the driver wasn't indicating going forward, rather if I was given the impression of driving away it would reinforce the title even better (but a minor point by me). I hope this is in the top ten if not top three.9.
A striking image. Very powerful. The connection to Les Mis is tenuous for me, but I'm taking things perhaps more literally than ought to be doing, and I'll acknowledge that at a metaphorical level you're it's working hard.
The sentiment seems a stretch mitigated by the quote to guide our thinking. So we see residue and I think detritus of past lives such as Jean Valjean's on the run. Still a stretch, but I enjoy edgy shots and this has a spare visual quality that prompts our minds to take another look and thought. 6, for the edge.
I like the grain.
The stark white areas are interesting.
The puddle gives another area of detail. I would have liked to had seen a little more of the bus, but not much.
Gave this a 4 originally, but bumping to a 6
8...I like this so much I don't even care if it has anything to do with a novel or not, though the quote does work nicely with it. Wait, I'm bumping this to a 9 now...it's the stain, the magic of the stain. I'm back, to add this to my favorites. I'm bumping to a 10. It made me come back and that's something. 10.
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