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Very nice, I like it a lot....it reminds me of Weston's famous "Pepper" in its sensualization of an inanimate object.

Beautiful...I really like this image a lot!

I like this photo a lot...especially the model's pose, and the overall tones. Her pale skin against the dark environment works great.

The composition: I think it could just maybe be a little cramped (too little space at the top)...but what bothers me most (and can be easily adjusted) is that the image doesn't look straight. The strength of this composition lies in symmetry, and the model calling attention to herself by breaking this symmetry, so to rotate this image clockwise just a tiny bit in my opinion would really solidify the composition.

Very cool location!

I like the interaction of all the lines and angles within the composition.

Okay, I'm going to step way out on a limb here....while I like this image in terms of quality very much, I'd prefer to comment on your intentions...and your reasons for stating your intentions. I'm going to offer some personal opinions which may ruffle some feathers all around. (This might be a little long.)

First, let me clarify that I'm neither a raging Catholic, nor am I conservative in any particular respect (quite the contrary)...so my words are not coming from that place. I'm a fashion and erotic photographer, and fully realize that we're all (nuns included!) are sexual beings...so if you want to explore any aspect of that, I'm all for it.

You said you were initially reluctant to give an explanation for this image, preferring to let the viewer interpret it as they like. I think that's the biggest cop-out in the entire field of "art".  

Hiding behind "I prefer to let the viewer interpret" is lazy artistically, and keeps an artist from being a truly great communicator. Instead, you should be saying to yourself, that you need to know what you're trying to say, and that if the viewer doesn't get it, then you need to try harder next time.

Certainly, there are images that plant seeds into the viewer's mind, which sprout into ideas that the artist may not have considered himself...that's a good thing.

Also, the artist may not have concrete language to explain his intended meaning, and the picture itself is the communication, and to discuss it would take the proverbial thousand words...that's a good thing.

In either case, the artist is NOT abdicating his role as visual communicator....rather, he is simply acknowledging that words are one thing, images are another. Perhaps, talking about pictures is like dancing about architecture.

To not discuss your pictures in a forum dedicated to detailed discussion of pictures, and to hesitate to offer for discussion the concept that motivated you, preferring to let the viewer interpret it...what? You can't fool me, I can tell by looking at this picture that a concept motivated you to make it. 

I'm actually interested in knowing more about that concept, and I don't get to, just an attempt to sidestep in advance any potential controversy. Let me tell you, anyone who would be offended by a naked nun will still be offended.

Sexy nuns are fricking controversial, man...they're also a little bit cliché, and I actually think you took pictures a little bit beyond cliché in this series, especially this one. So fricking stand up, throw the apologies in the garbage because that's where they belong if you're going to explore the sexuality of nuns, and give yourself the permission to really talk about what you're doing here, because I'd rather hear that than "I hope I'm not offending you".

Love it...that's really hot.

LOL very cool...what a fun puzzle to look at! Well conceived and executed in all ways.

The lighting and the overall tones are excellent.

I like that her pose is not perfectly symmetrical, which makes it seem a real glimpse and not a contrived vision.....however, I have to wonder how the composition would look if she was framed more symmetrically. The slight diagonal doesn't add any beneficial dynamic quality to this quiet image, which gets its strength from the overall symmetry; instead, the slant looks slightly jarring to my eye and I wonder to myself if the photographer could have been an ounce more rigorous while composing.

Another thing I like about this photograph is that it is a touch more provocative than a simple form study...it doesn't shout, but that is exactly what makes it so erotic: At the midpoint is yet another small symmetrical form nestled in shadow, and while it can be read as an almost fractal portrayal of mirrored shapes-within-shapes, it carries deeper meaning of feminine mystery.