I wonder if this photo looks dark to some of you? I had previously not adjusted my monitor from the default, reasoning that that way it would correspond to everyone else's uncalibrated monitors. But I recently decided that was stupid, and using a variety of tests (e.g., PhotoFriday's calibration tool, I adjusted the gamma setting until I could see all the shades of grey and wow, what a difference!! I always thought I could see well enough, but this really brought out a lot of detail in both the shadows and the highlights. It's almost like I switched to film. :) Anyway, I suspect that if you can't see the differences among the darker shades of grey that this photo will look particularly dark to you.