A little blurry, in some spots it works and in others it doesn't. I know I tried something like this in a challenge and it wasn't recieved well (last place actually) but in this image it seems to effect the image better.
very atmospheric.like the soft focus. but i think you could crop slightly the right side to grab the viewer in the subject.and maybe convert it to a nice duotone.but congrats anyway,good shot!
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff - I even have a similar thing entered myself :-) I'm not wholly certain of your treatment of this though. The sense of soft focus seems to work against the feel of the scene, to mask the chaos of pipe-work and surfaces. That could equally be the point, of course.
I like the atmosphere rendered by the subject and light blur, mist like. I'm not crazy about the composition, it would be cool to see re-cropped whith rule of third on the light.