"...but my friend can stick around"

Comments?

Well seen. I'm really enjoying this one -- studied it for quite a few minutes. Perhaps you could consider cropping a bit off the left -- I'm not sure, but it might give the composition even more impact. Damn fine shot!

Chris, I had a certain feeling for what the center of the image would be, and I had started this project with the idea of no cropping (didn't follow through on that on some other images in this portfolio) but I like your idea of clipping the left. I think it might make the image a lot stronger. I'll try it.

this series is giving me fear of business travel ... hate that separation from home - emphasised here by the absence of natural light, the harsh lines and the lurking train. nicely disconcerting peter.

Jeremy, thanks. Its Vegas, but I forget which circle of Hell this is. That's the ferryperson looking at us. Don't make eye contact. Pretend you forgot something back at the casino.

Peter, this is amazing. The incongruous pink and the way it colours the reflection is very powerful, and so is the justapoxition of such anonymous setting and the presence of the girl itself: something in her attire seems to cry for a foray outside anonymity.

 

Forgive me for the slaughtering, but I would like to bring the shot to a further level of incongruity, completely detaching it from the reality, trapping it into reflections and superposition...bar some anonymous tiles and an incongruously pink wall paint.

 

I wish you had shot this a few degrees tilted to the top, getting the first lamp from the right in the reflection completely in.

Salvatore, I like your crop suggestion. It takes the image all the way through to the other side!

Peter, I'm glad you like it. And even more so since you stated you had no crop in mind, after all...!

I'll just add my two cents in here. The original image is clever and well seen; the further crop is not so clever but darker and in a way strips the image to it's disturbing essential core and is, I believe, the better of the two. On a rather incongruous note, the approaching train reminds me of a giant catfish.

The image posted is now the cropped one. I cropped it a bit more than suggested. The thumbnail, for some reason, is a funky version of the old crop.

Peter, Of course I like it... Not to make my comment a non-sequitur, and for perennial memory of this discussion, can we also have the original posted somewhere in the thread?