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you have taken advantage of all the geometry here- great lines everywhere.

regards, mmwhite.

Igor,

She is a very pretty girl. Her skin tone is very good. The lighting is soft and looks very good on her face. She has applied her make-up very well. The composition works well. It is well balanced. I love her expression and the eye contact with the camera (viewer). She seems very relaxed.

I wish she had catch lights in her eyes. The multitude of lines in the photograph does not bother me at all. The background being busy works because she is in a park in an urban setting. You expect a lot to be going on in the background. A couple of the colors in the background are a little distracting, but not too bad. What does bother me about the background is the pole by her right hand -- that pole and all the vertical lines are not vertical. Vertical objects and vertical lines in a photograph should be vertical.

It appears she is wearing pantyhose. If this is so, it would not be appropriate with shorts. The high heals seem a little out of place for such a casual outfit? Avoid having the flat of the hand towards the camera. An open hand with the edge of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful. The little finger side of the hand photographs best because the smallest finger is towards the camera. I wish the green leaf in front of the bench was not there. My eyes keep going to it.

The copyright symbol, your name and the date are not part of the photograph. They belong on the mat.

Nice shot of a pretty girl with a lovely shape,

Mark