One of my higher rated images. Kind of made me think of the old Memorex commercials with the guy's hair blowing from the sound coming out of the speaker.
My goodness, you have a VERY good looking neighbour ;-) I like the outtake maybe just a tiny touch more but love the way you are looking into the lamp... both great shots.
As eyewave, I also thought this would finish higher. Congrats on top 20.
I thought this would finish way higher, in fact, the Pixar lamp came to mind immediately, so you reached your goal in another way. Not sure whether I like the outtake better, it has quite a different mood, very much reminds of a 60s crime movie. Anyway, both are very well done.
I like this photo a lot! Great exposure.
I do think you need either a little more lamp or little more human. Right now you are not quite equal, with a bit more lamp offsetting the photo.
I think it would be best to bring the lamp back a few inches, and include just a lil' more human so that the space between them is in the center of the photo.
I do think it would also work to have unequal amounts of one subject or the other. It would just need to be 2/3 of one and 1/3 of the other.