comment, please; what makes this photo feel the way it does?

Wistful. Excluded. As though I were looking into a grand room that I was not allowed to enter. Or perhaps a circus atmosphere. Why? The lights, the shiny glow within the car, the shadows that look like silhouettes of people. The shabbiness of the metal (?) wall to the right suggests the area that the viewer is restricted to.
This doesn't have an entirely clear meaning to me, so the photo may act, rorschach like, on the viewer.

 

For me, I have to side with DJ.
The eye travel is kinda confusing. I'm searching the image for detail and info but get lost..... sorry, please post your thoughts about this...and
actually this is a good one for the Discussion Group...
Shooter

 

Hm, I feel like I am peeking into the next car?

 

Well Mosca,
You achieved what you set out to do....them image makes me anxious too.......
You had me worried for a moment....... I'm glad your uncomfortable with the image...
I'd be somewhat surprised if you weren't.
Don

 

I'm confused as well. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at, and the reflections don't help. There's a few barely discernible objects, but none of them provoke any emotions in me. I suppose confusion is an emotion, so that's what I feel.

 

I'm just getting here and I am with the "confused" and yes, even anxious feelings in response to this image. There are quite a few layers and reflections which reminds of an evil "fun house" at an amusement park...or as though it's an image from a bad dream... And then there's a feeling of claustrophobia slipping its way in here for me, too, as though I'm possibly being held hostage or being held on to... How's that for some arm chair Internet psychology?

Definitely an uneasy feeling...and yet, I wanted to "like it" because of the lights, the glass, and more.

 

To be honest, in spite of the confusion I can't help but keep looking at it to figure it out. I think you may have captured the photographic version of a Chinese finger trap =).

 

You made a perfect "mise en abyme" (Mise en abyme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - the 2nd orthographic version "abîme" is an error of wikipedia) ; this is always very unsettling when shifting from 3D reality to 2D space. In my opinion, of course.

 

ah walt disney,............. this explains everything.

 

I think it is the view of inside the train whish is going throw a forest, really you have great effort in this shoot.

 

Unfortunately I have no strong feelings about this photgraph. As others have said, I find it confusing and difficult to understand the context. Maybe it's because I wasn't there, but it fails to draw any emotional response from me. A truely great photograph will always trigger an emotion in the viewer, regardless of whether they were present at the time or not. That's not to say this is a bad picture, it just doesn't connect with me. But that's not the point of what you are asking. The point is, try as I might, I can't really help on this one I'm afraid. :smile:

 

I like the tones of this photgraph but agree the composition is rather confusing

 

Here's my take:

The shinyness and reflection are in stark contrast to the elements surrounding, making it seem surreal, as though one is captured inside a fantastic train and about to head off to parts unknown.