I like the lighting effect splashing out over onto the furniture, and the placement of the vertical plants in the background that almost seem to be extensions of the flames. But it was the sky that caught my eye. The number of stars could just be a side-effect of the 10 second exposure but it's rare to see that many with the naked eye in any urban area. Even down here, which is hardly a large city, I just went out and saw a more sparsely populated sky than this one. And in my old place in Sydney itself almost nothing was visible. And yet I remember a time years ago when I was nowhere near any vestige of civilisation (or its urban lights) and the sky was awash with stars. (Of course my eyesight was better then too.) The sky in this one reminded me of that, and somehow caught my attention even more than the central subject did.
