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I like it!

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beaut...You get the idea; I'm speechless.

Anca,

She is a very beautiful girl with lovely hair and complexion. I like the soft lighting. There is still enough direction to the light to make it interesting and create an illusion of depth within your photograph. She has good eye contact with the camera (viewer). I love her rather aloof and regal expression. I can picture her dressed as a princess with that expression. You have focused quite well on her eyes. The contrast and color saturation is very good.

If you had called her Rapunzel instead of Snow White I would have understood and perhaps liked the low camera angle. You didn't and I don't. I hardly ever like looking up a girl's nose -- even a pretty girl's nose.

Even though she is rather young looking, I would like to see more make-up used, especially on her eyes. Her eyes should stand out more. She needs catch lights to give her eyes life. I would remove the dark circles under her eyes.

There is a problem with a red tint on her face, chest, arm and parts of her blouse. It probably is caused by her hair. 

The bright colors on her blouse and her blue skirt (to a lesser extent) draw my attention away from her face. Plain colors would work better. 

I do not like to pose a girl straight on to the camera or have her legs or knees in front of her. Having her body at an angel to the camera is thinning, feminine, graceful and elegant. Her legs and knees in front of her can cause foreshortening. Making them appear larger than they are because they are closer to the camera than her body. In other words they are foreshortened.

Unless there is a good reason to follow the rule of thirds in a portrait, I feel it is better to compositionally balance the left and right sides of the photograph. The compositional "rule" for this suggests to position the subject's nose in the vertical center of the photograph. You could crop quite a bit off the left side. This would also get rid of some of the bushes.

Even though your background is somewhat out of focus, it is still quite busy and has many shapes and lines in it. This draws attention away from your subject. The sky is a bit bright and does cause a bit of a problem. It competes with her face for the viewer's attention.

Thank you for putting your name on the "mat" where is belongs. Some people don't.

Nice shot,

Mark

Beautiful!

Beautiful portrait! Thank you for sharing. :)