[Old Professer]

I spent a week in San Francisco about 15 years ago while my wife was attending a training session. Anticipating boredom, I took a camera, all my lenses and rolls of film.

The most remarkable picture I took was a closeup of a street gutter with an admixture of dead leaves, paper wrappers, silt and muddy water.

Nobody ever saw it for what it was.

Most thought it was an abstract autumn leaf-turning image; it always looked to me like a life wasted.

[BenLurkin]

Thank you. Your comments capture the tragic pathos quite well.