I think I'm first in posting my compliments on yet another amazing shot. I love reflections too, especially the ones you capture.

Ah, the decisive moment is gone - I thought I was going to get first comment in! :-)
When I see a shot like this, I wonder whether the subject is staring into space, or whether he's staring at a reflection of a camera!
Nicely composed.

Much prefer this shot Dave ;) I love the composition you've gone for - it reminds me of these competition winner images from the international photography awards - http://photoawards.com/04/contests/winners_detail.asp?id=3263.

Great work :)

It's a great shot Dave. It clearly portrays human nature without obvious inteference.

A candid moment that works for all the right reasons.

i love your recent monochromatic shots.

This looks like he's looking into a dolls house ... with a mirror

...if that makes sense

Nice picture anyway. I always love your b&w's.

Yes Dave,
I do like this one better, It has a little more to it, but... I am surprised you posted both on B&W.

Velviapix

Hi Dave
Out of interest, how are you finding the 1.4 compared to the 1.8 as you've only recently switched haven't you? I've got a 1.8 MkI but the slow focusing, especially with moving children, is making me think about moving to the faster 1.4...worthwhile would you say?

Cheers
Mark

PS. I do like these reflection shots...you can use the term reflection in either way :-)

Firstly, since this is my first post on your blog, your photographs are impressive. The content you choose to frame is delightful quite often (even when they are sobre and/or simple). I love your B/W's but I think it is a bigger challenge to take good (great) color photographs and in that aspect you are so terribly impressive!!!! (I cannot say that enough!) My favorite picture is the fallen parachute (huge one with squares in its cloth with colours of greys, blues, greens and some yellows) though there are many close seconds.

Anyway about this pictue, I personally liked the previous one better - because the man's face was entirely clear (in form, in focus) and the rest was so fluid - where as in this picture the man's face blends into the fluidity...

This picture is more serene though and there is more readable content in the out-of-focus part too (both plusses)...

at first the photo is irritating, it's surreal and that is exactly what i want when i look to high quality b/w images. ;)

I think this shot is missing something that was there yesterday. Not to say that I don't like this one. This is the type of image that I believe you are best at creating and you do it amazingly well. Yesterday's picture captured a moment for which I needed to create a story to go along with the situation. Today's picture, while maybe stronger technically and compositional, is somehow lacking in this respect.
Great photo never the less.

yeah I prefer this one too. I love the frame for his face and the chairs.

Very nice capture, Dave... and very unique! Having missed yesterday's shot until after seeing this one, I had no idea it was from a train. I assumed it was a reflection in a mirror in a storefront... or something along those lines. I immediately thought of various movie scenes where a ghostly figure talks to a person through a mirror. Then, maybe that's because I've been photographing headstones lately. :-)

And, having gone back to yesterday's post, I much prefer today's stare-into-space expression, and the overall composition of the shot.

I love it. I really don't know what else to say. :)

Good shot. I personally liked the one you posted yesterday as it had a lot more character to it. Although nothing as dramatic as this, I have also taken in a picture of my reflection that you can check here. In the center of the image you can see the tripod.

Robert Doisneau eat your heart out!

Im never comment in your blog, becouse I idolize you ... Im spanish (sorry for my bad english) these shot is a great shot ... i like it by the expression of the man... congratulations
Greetings Caleidos

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I think I like yesterdays more, I like the emotion in it. This one makes me feel sorry for the chap. Still a great shot, the different shapes frame and balance with his face well, and the crop works well.

Still like yesterdays better :)

although attractive, just a s a pretty girl, if he's not eyeing you, but the guy behind the window, you didn't get it

awesome expressions, but (ok it's a reflection) messy, you get away with it, when posting on chromasia, but in school, they'd kick your arse

Excellent - I really like this one - definitely best with the black theme. He seems so close yet so far away. beautiful light play.

Well, this shot is better than nothing!

Can't believe it!

Fantastic!

Amazing to think that it's another Wednesday, time flies! I'll be fifty soon, I think I'm having a suprise party. djn, how old are you?

Bye then!

I like it better than the previous one. Not least because I had to look at it for a moment or two to work out what was going on. Nicely done. I get the train into work every day but always feel I'd be invading peoples space and privacy if I took pics on the train. Maybe I'll give it a go though.

This is the first time I have commented. I like most of what you do - but especially the candid people images. I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US people are very "weird" about their personal space. I've yet to muster up the guts to shoot like this. Ever get punched in the nose for taking a photo?

(BTW - who cares if he's not actually looking at YOU - nice capture)

I love photos like this, where someone is truly captured in a moment. Great photo!

This one looks best with the black theme. Nice work.

I'm drawn more to the previous shot - it had more life.

It's a great shot - a great expression.

Thanks everyone.

Velviapix: for some reason these reflection shots very rarely work in colour.

mark: I've been impressed with the 1.4 so far - the focussing is faster, and it's a sharper lens.

Rod: for some reason this one reminded me of Dorian Grey, so I know what you mean.

peter: I'm not sure I follow why you think this is messy.

Now this photo is more like a painting as you look at it in the thumbnail. Regular size seems etherial and realistic at the same time. I like it, the face is still not at peace but has come to terms with something.