Caught this at an airport..

I really like the original shot, crop and all. Good timing.

As to permission - all not having it does IMO is limit what you can do with the shot. You are certainly not able to use it for commercial purposes.

at first I didn't agree with the croping suggestions, but then I did the old hand crop at the light colored bar and I have to say I agree. You are correct in keeping a lot of negative space, but the extra detail far right does compete. Other then that.. wonderful.

Thanks for all of your comments.

As for processing, I just imported it as a raw into CS2, removed the saturation, pushed the contrast a little, then opened in photoshop with a touch of unsharp mask, then noise-ninja'd it. (noise nija took a bunch of tweaking to feel right.

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