I don't think a photograph of a quote suffices as an original work...(but we'll see what other people say)

I disagree happy. If you take a photo of a building that you didn't build does that make it not original work? Nice work author.

you both have a point, the difference is with a building or statue etc, you can have different light, angles etc. Is a picture of a poem any different from a picture of somebody's photograph.
IMO you would need to add something, to the photograph, see some background, a pen etc, not just looking like something that could just as easily have been scanned.

thank you friiskiwi, that was more what I was trying to get at

It was writen on awal in tel aviv.

It was writen on awal in tel aviv.

oh, that sounds lovely. had you zoomed out and gotten it in context or gotten the wall as well, it could have been lots better