I wonder if He remembers the ivy. I like this sort of continuity, year after year. Nice! An old friend, indeed. :)

Tara, I have another show with green ivy leaves, but I chose this one. Thank you for commenting.

Nothing more comfortable than an old friend. Nice shot.

Indeed! Thanks for looking.

Something i've rarely seen in a photo, great shot ;o]

Often, there's a great deal more under our feet than in the sky:-)) Thank you!

Excellent photography.

Thanks much for your kind words!

Wonderful that He is still there. A very classy photo. I must look back in your gallery for the other pics.

So must I, Andrea! I joined in 2003 and have only looked it though a couple of times. Thank you, my friend!

lovely decay

shooting decay is the only way to capture time (except shooting clocks:-))

Much more comfortable than new shoes

need to find the second one, though. this one is only good for snowboarding

fantastisches Bild gefäll mir sehr gut

Many thanks!

Wonderful capture, dear Nikolay, I bet that boot has seen some miles. Hugs for all day. Di. xx

Thanks much, dear Di! I presume he's been here since late 80's. Be well.

Ode to half the pair - masterful coloring.

Many thanks!

I bet he was a very comfy boot at one time, great capture!!

Glad you like this one. Thank you!

OHH I just love this kind of shots. I think you did a really splendid job finding and capturing your good old friend here :-D

Glad I was able to commemorate the encounter. Thank you!, Helle!

"Never judges a person until you've walked a mile in there boot." I love it, in it's simplicity there is so much more.

Bonita, cheers!

Great find and capture my friend. God bless.

Thanks much for your kind support!

Well seen and captured, nikolais.

Thank you Paul!

I love the moss colonizing this old boot; must be time to plant something in it! Wonderful shot!

last year I found an ivy twig growing through a crack on the opposite side...thank you!

really cool capture, like it!

Jep, Simon and Garfunkel, was my time from 12 to 18! was so young and I still like theme so much.... this shoe and wash out wood have done her job and you made a poeme in photograhy of them, fit perrrrrfect! great! 5+++

Thanks for keeping the tune in your memory and kind words

I vaguely remember of an earlier encounter with Mr.Boot in your gallery, how time flies ... nothing much really changes - maybe in another century? but what, if he was buried under ice and then re-discovered, what a surprise that would be for future generations ;) Although presently, this one reminds me of the size, befitted for a clown ! I do like the solitude of this image. BB

Brit, you may have definitely seen it before as I've been shooting him four years now. Every time I've got to find and dig it out of the tall weeds behind a derelict and half-ruined shack. Thank you!

Superb portrait...

Thanks a lot!

Generous old shoe, it was once a confort to tired feet and now it's a home to ivy... Like!

Every August I find it in the grass, place in the crack between the wooden planks of the nearby shack, shoot, and then place it back to where it belongs. Thank you!

Superb!

Grateful!

Fantastic capture !

Interesting shot... Aloha

finest artwork! ;o)

A absolutly fav...LOL very very nice capture!!

I can't believe I haven't commented on more of these, I saw them several times and had a million thoughts, yet as I go through these I see I didn't comment again and again. Lord. Well I'll do this in more than one session, I have a lot of things to say here. This is wonderful, first for the shoe obviously, in its total disarray as a shoe and its surrender to nature and decay. But even its decay is shoe-like---like what a shoe should look like as it ages beyond human use. And then you have total black background, which is perfect. And you have it on a rough bare fence (with terrific old fence textures)---and that's all there is. But because of that---the minimality---the textures of the shoe and fence stand out beautifully, because there's enough going on in them to balance out the minimality of subject material. Also, the curvature of the sole is in fine contrast to the straight line of the wood. Wonderful, Nikolay. I'll be back for more soon, I'm not done. But it's an amazing journey to sit with your work. I'm still learning and stretching from what you do---you're simply one of the most intuitive and constantly "fresh" artists I've known. You're always opening my eyes as if for the first time... I realize I haven't fav'd here: I just got wound up in the art and forgot. But look, a fav for it all: Not one is unworthy. )My fav's don't work well anyway, half of them don't show up; but I'd have fav'd them all if I'd remembered!)