Shortly after I took this picture, this woman—who I thought was way too engrossed in her coffee and headphones to notice me—gave me the stinkeye. I guess if you pick a table all the way at the back of the coffee shop at 7:30 on a Sunday morning, maybe you're looking for a little solitude.

Technical info: Shot with a Nikon D40 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G lens, in manual exposure mode. Aperture f/2.8, shutter 1/125 sec, ISO 200. Post-processing in Aperture 3: straightened and cropped; -1 exposure; levels to set black point and white point.

Thoughts for improvement: Would have been nice to get just a touch further to the right so as not to cut off the car in the reflection.