Gravel Path

Why would I call this gravel path when the only element in the picture actually in focus is the rope fence? I'm not to sure but it felt fitting at the moment. Today I post an image I took at the Japanese garden of Murin-An in Kyoto. We were given time to sketch at every garden we went to and more often than not, I ended up spending most of that time taking pictures like this. It's times like these that I truly have the most fun. To me its my way of really discovering the world around me. At this garden I really fell in love with the interaction of all the materials that made up the garden from the gravel paths and their roped borders to the mossy groundcover with a sprinkling of leaves.
I chose this picture because there is a somewhat split focus between the detail of the rope and the gravel path on the left. I think that because of this mixed focus, the eye is constantly moving around the image as we try to make sense of this somewhat strange perspective of viewing the world. I think that this picture is probably best comparable to my ladybug picture that I posted a little while ago.