Mysterious

Flinders Street Station is the main city terminus and interchange station for the railway system in Melbourne which is now administered by the MTR Corporation from Hong Kong. MTR is the short form for Hong Kong's underground railway system. Some twenty years ago, the Melbourne railway system was associated mainly with the heritage of the UK systems, namely inefficiency and regular strikes. The locals tell me that the MTR people has improved the train service a bit but the whole shebang is too old to be really remedied. It needs an overhaul.

This shot has a mysterious quality to it which reminds me of the surreal sci-fi movies by Bruce Willis like Surrogates or the Fifth Element. The two men dressed in suit on the platform at either edges through the window could be some sort of special agents. It took just ten seconds from the moment I spotted the scene, turned on the camera to shotting the image. Otherwise, chances were that the train would have left the station or the passenger turned his head away from the window. The implication: camera always on hand and, again, don't hesitate.