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As much as I like cats, this one is distracting and doesn't add anything to the picture. There are in fact many distracting elements i.e.the dress pattern, the wallpaper and the things coming out of the model's head and the bright orange couch The focus point seems to be on the forward edge of the sleeve with DOF extending to top of shoulder leaving her face out of focus.

You do have the model in a relaxed pose facing window light and her position is pleasing. If this was a grab shot, I can see why you took it. It needed to be improved in the viewfinder. Vertical format, better focus and control of DoF. Try again.

Hi Veronica, I'm writing for this photo but these suggestions are also related to the other photos of album "Lieutenant's Woman".

This and the other photos of the album lack of the research of a "relation" or "empathy" with the little cat. In this way the cat is not a "co-subject", it becames almost a "forced" but "bothering presence". The "contact" with the model is there because you ask for it and she's giving you what you have asked .... but with the cat is different, a cat doesn't give you what you ask, it's you that have to search what you want and use empathy to find out. In this photo the cat has the eyes a bit closed .... it's clear that you are looking at it just as a presence in the scene, but there's not "partecipation" by the cat, because you are not looking at it for "its eyes", you are looking for the model's eyes. This lack of interest for the "co-subject" and therefore for its "feelings" is a strong evidence.

There's also the big contrast between the natural appareance of the cat and the articial appareance of the model. This contrast maximizes the appareance of the model as an artifact, bothering her beauty and her pose, the model and the cat are near but they are not "integrated".

Hope to be useful :-)