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What is especially successful about this image is that it rewards coming back to it with subtle details.

The perception and presentation of the light in this photo is extraordinary. A background close to middle gray creates a sense of space allowing the highlights and shadows to balance perfectly. The whole image deals with balance - light and dark, symmetry vs. asymmetry, receding and advancing, etc.

There is drama in the initial perception that elements of the image are floating in space; there is tension in the 90º rotated (dis)orientation of the picture, and in the process of resolving what the subject is 'in reality'.

What will keep me coming back to this image are the asymmetrical details; looking back and forth from right to left I want to compare and relate each element to the corresponding one across from it. (As I do that the whole thing seems about to rotate horizontally!)

The only things to criticize are:
1) I wish wasn't framed so tightly; but that may be a result of necessity.
2) The title detracts from the ethereal/surreal quality of the image.