"Tell's a story, have a message about our larger culture.
Take something ordinary and make it extraordinary
or take something beautiful and show us what's ugly about it.
layered images, complexity to produce food for thought (Don't simply take a photo of trash, give it some context or mystery)."

To me this is a picture of a coconut stand. Id love to see a bit more character
imbued into the image. for example your description is nice but it doesn't matter to me. If you found a way to layer in the ideas of the description to be more evident in the photo then maybe it would be closer to fitting into the contest.

I don't mean to say it's a bad photo, it's just not really of the spirit or really along the guidelines I provided. However I acknowledged this is partly a cultural thing, and that there could be more subtly in there that I am not picking up. I also acknowledge that the rules and guidelines that I wrote may not be descriptive enough, as i've been receiving lots of posts that aren't quite doing it for me.

I appreciate that you went out and took photos specifically for this contest, i hope i wasn't too discouraging, thanks for asking for more info and fighting back on it, i like the photo a bit more after spending some time with it! Please keep taking more photos and submit more to this contest if you like.