Stills

Anonymity, yes, I was struggling to find the right title. That word is a much better fit John.
 

I think the composition has been done well, capturing interesting lines and patterns. The tree adds a bit of scale. I just feel it needs another element in the picture but perhaps that would destroy the effect you are making.
 

I don't know why but I don't make the 'work' link to this image. Possibly because my background is all manufacturing this image doesn't relate to work for me at all.

Therefore I tend to see it as a pattern type picture.
 

No, I don't see this as work either. Mind you, I've stayed in a few hotels that look a bit like this. Anonymity seems to fit the bill much better.

A pattern shot certainly, but a much stronger one than the more obvious square on view would have been. I see the receding lines as suggesting that the building goes on forever (although the white patch without a window in the top left spoils this thought slightly). I find that I see that the lines almost come to a point on the right which makes it easier to de-focus and lose track of the fact that this is just a building and a tree.

When I first saw this I, as it were, turned the page. I probably wouldn't have looked twice at it in a magazine. But sitting here with more time I see lots more in the image than I thought I would.

You've captured something of the relentlessness of big city urbanisation. If we are in to proposing titles, I propose 'relentless'.
 

I actually worked in a similar building for a number of years. The external monotony was repeated on the interior, not only in the work done, but in the pattern of the overhead lights, the cubical walls etc etc etc. Anonymity is certainly part of it, but I would argue it's just another feature of the kind of work that goes on in these places.

I can imagine those folks on with a view of the tree are glad of it.

A big print of this would be a disturbing reminder of the kind of work I hope never to do again.
 

auspicious: "When I first saw this I, as it were, turned the page. I probably wouldn't have looked twice at it in a magazine."

I turned the page more than a few times on this one before I decided to put it up I can tell you. You're right about that top left corner. More windows required!

As for the internal monotony mat, one of my thoughts when shooting was that I bet it's the same on the inside; dullness forever.
 

Being an office bound worker this disturbs me on many levels! The tree offers me my sanctuary and it needed to be in the shot else I would have turned the page a la auspicious and not returned. The choice of angle of shot makes it a little more interesting than most.Thanks for sharing.