Experimental Photography 17

I have been working on this challenge all week and have found it quite difficult. My attempts have produced nothing but underexposed images, at least to my eye. Even this shot looks overly dark to me, I would typically open up those shadows some to include more of the surroundings, but that would defeat the purpose of this particular challenge. I am grateful to Markus for providing these weekly exercises which are clearly forcing me out of my normal comfort zone and into something more experimental (and in keeping with one of my resolutions made at New Years).