my friends Grandmother

Best regards, Ilkka

Good image of a nice lady travelling in her memories.Bravo!

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

excellent. 

This is a great way to do a portrait.  How I wish the bright white was not in the frame!

a fine portrayal... excellent work!

Compliments Svetlana for this little-big masterpiece.

yes!!!!!!!!!! i really like it!!!! great work svetlana

brilliant, dramatic characterization. woman in her vanity. literally, lol ;-} dp

Thank you very much for the comments and attention to this shot.

Svetlana.

beautiful image. I like your B&W tones and composition. But the real plus is the framing through the mirror : this way the distance from the subject allows a more intimate survey and, at the same time, abstracts and links the subject to its environment. Excellent.

vezio

 Thank you very much for the comment!

Svetlana

Thank you very much for your comment! 

Svetlana

You have a unique opportunity with your relatives and numerous friends and living in a country that is seldom photographed from an 'artistic' and 'intellectual and/or documentary' point of view to take more such wonderful photographs.

I recommend you take a look at 'East 100th Street' by Bruce Davidson, a member of the Magnum Photography agency.  I saw his work when Davidson was showing slides in the early 1970s to a group in New York City in an attempt to find a quality publisher.  He took portraits with an 8 x 10 camera in south Harlem in Manhattan just north of the wealthiest portion of Manhattan where some of the wealthiest persons and business, economic and society leaders live, yet this people mostly were immigrant and most quite poor.

As I said before, this is a wonderful photo, and it would be a wonderful thing if you could take more such photos - you are uniquely able and qualified to take such photos.

This is the kind of photo that ends up being shown a century later in books . . . . about photography and about 'life as it was back then'.

Please consider this as a kind suggestion. 

From a friend.

john

John (Crosley)

Here's a link to a gallery showing some of Davidson's work that shows in his book.

http://www.edelmangallery.com/davidsonshow3.htm

(I wouldn't make such a suggestion to less than a first class photographer - john).

Thank you very much for your attention to my shots and for your kind words! And thanks for the interesting link!

 Svetlana.

Thanks a lot for your  attention to this shot!

Grandma is no longer with us ...

Great photo. Congratulations.:)

Thanks a lot!