Mundane tires

I started today with trying an idea in the home studio but it fell short of a concept. I next took the camera out, on a search of a subject. Not knowing what or how to accomplish this I took the easy route of starting with the tread of a tire.  Remnants of tires might be constructed into an interesting sculptural piece to photograph, I thought. The local tire store had four neat stacks of old whole tires, no giant hills of waste in the southwest landscape and no small chewed-up remnants.  When the big picture doesn’t work then moving in very close most certainly will. I left the tire store not knowing for sure if I had a keeper, just a hundred or so of close ups.  Processing a few good ones revealed the reason I was pulled by one specific tire.  During this processing of the tonal range and seeing two images side by side, I realized they belong to gather and all others could be trashed.