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Great mood. The washed-out effect for the interior works well. The empty room suggests a whole story.

Now if only they were looking at each other, it would be that much better...

Occasionally here on P.nut I come across genuine photography. Thank you Dana for providing the experience.

Looking at each other . . . would be trite. This is much more interesting. Besides, he's looking at her and she's either enjoying it, or thinking of something else entirely. As I said before, the picture conjures up stories.

I like the vintage Brassai feel to this image. The softness and grain combine to give it a wonderful dreamlike quality, something imagined in that interval between sleep and awake. My compositional instinct (whose presence makes itself felt by a slight tightening of the shoulders) wants to see the full name in the window but if it was a quick grab, I'll have to shrug off the feeling. It actually works pretty good with the top letters cropped out leaving only the word Trattoria.