Way too dark. If it's supposed to be night, the sky is too bright and blue. If it's supposed to be day, the ambient lighting should be better. The stairs should be consistently illuminated ALL the way up, since the handrails are...

? do not understand. Are you insinuating this is manipulated?
I think this is a nice shot Author and good luck.

Thanks Cab. I wanted to make these commercial stairs somewhat artistic instead of a snapshot. Levels used. no manipulation.

this one is definitely more artistic imo, good shot

yepp, very nice. Actually this reminds me of a way to get rid of people from a location. Either veeery long exposure or multiple shots in such a way, that every part of a scene is shown without a person in a shot. Then put together in Photoshop and bang! you have a scene without any people.

Very nicely done.

lovely setting

this is a very nicely composed image -- wonderful use of HDR (I assume) -- am sure this would be great without HDR as well

Wonderful HDR, such great warm colours