*****The October Contest Topic is PATHS/PATHWAYS *****

Paths can be of any material, dirt, grass, gravel, bricks, etc. Even asphalt. A road can be a path, but not all roads are paths. To qualify as a path, a road (of whatever substance) needs to meet the following somewhat-paradoxical criteria:

1) There is a destination which can be shown, hinted at, or deliberately hidden, but which is clearly not the same as where the picture was taken. (A shot of a road lined with suburban strip malls as far as the eye can see is not a path, since all it leads to is "more of the same.")

2) Conversely, the path must have something special about the immediate area of the photo that makes the path important, not just the destination. (A shot of the highway from L.A. to Las Vegas, where all you see is a highway cutting through the sand with the "Strip" in the far distance, is likewise not a path, since the only point of interest in the photo is the destination, with nothing noticeable about the immediate surroundings themselves.)