September 26, 2009 7:53pm This one has a cool feel to it. It would be easy to over analyze this one. Technically, the background is totally blown out. You could use lighting in the subject area to balance the difference in exposures. But... If you could see more of the background, would that make it too distracting and take attention from your subject? Also, how would that balance change the mood of the image? There's something about this image that totally works. Nice job.