I like the motion and stillness all in one. Oh, and the bright colors in the foreground contrasting with the brick background really give me a feeling of old and new.

Nice shot.

The "black and white" brickwork in the background and the striking colors in the foreground give the sensation that you are looking back in time...now that's a special camera! Very nice. It was a great surprise to see a new picture posted when I wasn't expecting one.

This doesn't do anything for me really... the blue edge in a 'blurry C' draws the eye and is distracting, as well as the color strip on the bottom. The station is cool... I would have taken a picture of that as the main subject... here it is hard to tell what your focus is

Well done for such a limited camera.

Very interesting shot. Although I agree the photo lacks some focus and has some attention drawn in different areas, I enjoy the contrast and sharp colors. On a side not, pictures including the photographer have always interested me. : )

molto bella questa..

the colors on this shot are gorgeous

This picture clearly shows that's not the camera what counts but the person who uses it. I like the textures and lights in the background and the vivid contrast in the foreground. The picture also contains an evidence that it's not by G5. I'm so sorry about your broken camera anyway.

That's a very interesting photograph. I'm loving the contrast of the colours. Even with the handicap of a mediocre digicam, you've managed to give us something pleasing . Good work!

I'm sorry for your camera, but you are able to take good pitcures even with a pinhole camera. Don't worry about your technical means as your artistical ones are really huge.
Furthermore, my 800x600 monitor does not reveal any reduction in the quality of the image due to the different camera.
I love the panning effect of the frame, that is the windows of the train. You also wait for the real good moment to shoot the pitcure so your body is reflected in the lower left corner of the frame.
Nice.. really nice.
Are you going to buy the new Powershot G6 with 8 Mb?

Please tell me you didn't take it to Jessops for repair... they took two months to replace the battery casing on my camera.

As for the photo: I love the tones of the reflections in the centre, but I'm not so keen on the blue and pink round the edges... maybe cropping would have been a good idea.

Argh, I was in the middle of posting a long, detailed comment when my #$@%& browser crashed. Sigh. To sum up what I was saying:
1. The jarring flourescent border is interesting because it highlights the fact that you are imposing something modern (yourself) onto a scene that otherwise looks old and worn.
2. I really like the bit of sunlight over on the right - provides balance and draws attention to the shape of the main "window" of light over on the left.
3. It looks almost like a man is on a train, taking a picture of us. :-)
4. You probably could have desaturated the colors of the blue and pink and made them a more complimentary shade, and no one would have commented that they didn't like them. Not that I think you should have done so, I just think it's the saturation and flourescentness that people are responding to more than the crop itself.
5. If my browser crashes when I hit Post, I give up. :-P

i love this shot. the bright colors contrasting with the "oldness" of the structures located within the border. the fact that the border doesn't wrap itself around the whole shot makes it even more interesting. there's so much going on here. i could see myself standing in front of this photo for a while if i ever saw it on a gallery wall.

It seems to me that this camera might be what you have been asking for to get your creativity back. I find that being constrained and using an old camera spurs some new different images. Because it's not the tool that matters it is the craftsman wielding that tool.

Thanks everyone.

Luca: no, hopefully I'm going to get a D20.

James: no, I've sent it back to Canon.

tiffany: one version of this shot I produced did have colours that complimented the background, but the image seemed less interesting to me as a result. I guess my interest in this shot is that there are frames within frames, and I didn't want to de-emphasise the outer one.

I can honestly say that this photo is not one of my favoites on your site but as I have looked at it for about the third time I am struck by the very, almost mono-tone subject framed by such a contrast in the bright blue and pick color.