Originally posted by MossyRocks Thanks for the feedback. I had a feeling it was with the radial symmetry as well as the pop from doing it as a B&W image. While I've thought it was a fairly good image I just never thought it was as outstanding as others seem to think it is.
I understand what you are saying, and perhaps I have found one of the reasons
why some images are much more popular than others of the same subject.
This image, like a few other photos every photographer remembers, allows us
to identify what it is, yet also lets us interpret the image as something else.
I believe painters call that interpretative abstract. In photography it can be
a hyperrealistic image of something that is very obvious, and yet looking at it
it can represent something else, often more powerful.
And we like to come back to enjoy how our mind tricks our vision.