Noteworthy feat

This photo was my entry to Photofriday's weekly contest last week. The theme was Warmth. This one was chosen to be among top 6 "noteworthy" photos in the contest by popular vote (My link is named "Buddies"). This photo appeared on my photoblog on 11th November. I clicked this one some time ago, wasn't very much pleased at first. The road was dusty, sun was too bright and colors not warm enough. But after little tinkering with GIMP, it came out good. Still, I won't say this is my best attempt.

I'd put this up at my Flickr account and monologist commented -

This is perhaps one of the best pictures I've seen on flickr or perhaps even in my life [and i've seen my share of interesting pictures]
But here is why I love this picture.
In the background there exists the busy and hectic life, people have no time for anything just going from point A to point B.
The temperature is so dried and arrid that it sort of addresses the mood of the people in the towm.
But yet its still lively in exicitement that you lose yourself within it all.
And there in the very corner of life, there exists too friends, perhaps even best friends that share a unique bond with each other.
The other friend doesn't have a bike, so the other actually gets off his bike and walks side by side, symbolically of how he would walk side by side through out life.
The other friend points to whatever amuses him, which is symbolical of how life is ammsuing for all of us, if only we would open our eyes.
And then it silences westerns etc, because no matter how 'poor' or 'poverty striken' we believe the developing countries are... there is something there that's so gut wrenching and so real, that we can't really ever fathom in our lives.
And this is why I love this picture.

I didn't think this deep while clicking this one, but that is quite an interpretation. My wishes are with her, she'd make a good photo-critic :-).

Needless to say I'm very happy and proud over this. Photofriday is a very reputed website when it comes to online photography contests and this was my first attempt there. I must be mighty lucky because the other pictures selected just took my breath off; beginner's luck they say :-). Hopefully the luck will stay with me, atleast till CAT this Sunday.

Ah, and this would be a good time to be a regular at my photoblog :-D.

Update: Thanks to Photofriday, my photoblog got 600+ hits during the day with about 190 unique visitors. I'm lurrrving it! :-)