I always stand around like this

The pose is nice but the lighting too flat for my taste. At some level it feels like a nice study of her tan lines. Much of you other work has been better then this one.

Thanks for your comment. I rather enjoy the pose myself. I was intentionally lighting the images flat, perhaps because of all the years I spent shooting black and white with dramatic lighting; I'm enjoying being able to express things in color, without depending on shadows. As you'll see eventually, I did do some things with this model with a much more directional light; I'll be interested to see your comments on those images.

Interestingly, I posted the same image on Flickr, and someone there suggested a high-key B&W treatment. There appear to be many paths . . . 

Mark raises an interesting question about her tan lines.  In some photos the tan lines are an important element either in the abstract design or because they hint that the nudity is an unusual situation for the subject - eg in an intimate bed-room type scene.  But effectively they just represent the design of the model's most recent bikini and in a figure-study like this I think the body shape is more clearly appreciated without them. It is a simple matter to do some selective adjustment in PS to hide them so it is just a question of whether you positively want to keep them in the picture.

Best wishes,  Jonathan

Thanks for the comment. I must confess that my mindset is more towards just recording what is there, which sometimes gets in the way of seeing how an image can be improved. I think you and Mark have a good point about the tan lines.