I like it, too. It's an excellent image. Sometimes they [dpc'ers] need either spoonfeeding or to be beaten over the head with an idea. Sucks when that happens.
the poster itself does not hold the image together. I would assume that is the pattern you refer too However, I want to look straight down the street and ignore the wall.
I like this shot, the juxtaposition of the pattern against the rest of the image (which of course has other patterns in it, too, such as the walkway), but the lack of a clear focus on any one (or greater) spot on the pattern bothers me just a bit.
A good capture - however the pattern has to be looked for and isnt that obvious, the eye drifts to the couple on the street. Overall i like the feel of the monochrome image
I would have cropped it down more towards the wall to bring more focus to the actual pattern in the picture, but haveing it this way did make my eye travel and look around the picture, nice black and white