Meant to comment on this at the time, Jon, and never got round to it, and then remembered it yesterday whilst out and about so I've come back to find it. Do those noise/too dark comment rile you like they do me - the presumption that you've made a mistake, rather than a choice? I liked this a lot, and still do.
What makes it for me are two particular complementary elements you have going on: the sky disappearing to black top left balances that white car bottom left, and also the darkness of the pile of scrap bottom right: the white car and the scrap also balance each other, which provides great natural framing for the main subject: the crane coming in from the 'vacant' corner, neatly brings the eye to the main car, which process makes the centred composition work well.
I guess I'd have tried to reduce the sharpening artefacts around the edges of the crane arm, but in such grainy (noisy!!) work it doesn't really offend. I guess you knew it was going to get slammed, but I think it's a very strong shot.
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