Dark Alley

http://www.chrisheninger.com/battle/wouldntwant.jpg

C&C?

Maybe overlay the pattern, that way you get the same effect but a little more saturation. Patterns really kill contrast....they kinda gray everything out.

Updated, thanks for that little bit of information rodder.

did you create the whole image? the reason i ask is because i don't want to offend you if you took the background from something else and i'm telling you to keep it and not the part that you actually did - know what i'm saying?

anyway, i think it could be stronger if you took the figure (you?) out completely. the title tells me what i need to know - it implies your being there/not being there. the style of the background and foreground don't match, so they look like 2 different images just pasted together, whereas you probably took some time to mask/insert/(whatever you did to) the figure.

also, there's something about the way your legs end at the bottom there, kind of abruptly, that doesn't work too well. you could even try making the figure more ghostly (your legs are already beginning to fade into the dark), like you're there, in the alley, but not really there - it's an imagined situation (is that too much of a stretch?)