Dr. Michele Moody-Adams, philosophy scholar and new dean of Columbia College in New York City

Here's an environmental portrait taken to illustrate a metropolitan

newspaper's profile of the new dean of Columbia College in New York

City. Professor Moody-Adams, a noted scholar of philosophy and ethics,

is the first woman and first black to hold the dean's post at the

university.

Nice capture. I see her mussed up hair, the lines on the forehead, the arched eyebrows, the steady eyes, the angle of the face, that expression -- dare I call it smirk! -- the way she curls her fingers. She's listening, but impatiently. Perhaps she has something to say, perhaps she just needs to move on...She impresses me as a doer.

I would crop on the left as that thing upper left is distracting. And perhaps crop some on the right.