I absolutely love the way you put the shoes together. I like the way you tried to be creative also. For me though, shoes like this say "fashion" and the surroundings don't really show "fashion". If you had a sign out there with a big X on it or something, the photo might make a statement. The lighting, rule of thirds, color, focus and crispness is great!

I think the author is trying, precisely, to create a statement of "conflict of dis-similarities", in putting a pair of fashionable shoes in an unlikely setting, hence heightening it's visual and emotional impact, like shooting a well-manicured pair of hands doing iron-mongery or something rough and dirty like that.

I find the photo very original, and where will the owner who was raised in a hurry shoes? a thriller?

I like that the 2 textures combine sort of. Maybe a person would have wanted to cross the river without getting her shoes ruined?

I like the juxtaposition of the fancy shoes out away from civilization