Now this had possibilities but sort of doesn't quite make it due to a couple of small but important things. 1) The whites of the foreground shoe are blown 2) the background detracts from the shot due to it being unessesary clutter - 4
Not close enough to get an abstract type textural picture, and too close to take advantage of evoking the era that the shoes portray, ie: 1940's Casablanca type shot.