Very nice portrait of a very pretty young woman. The characteristics that pop out at me besides her beauty are the brilliant contrast and the excellent composition/cropping. One thing I've learned from this forum (including from Mike Dixon) is that space above a person's head is not always that important and in fact you can cut pretty deeply into the top and actually add to the strength of the composition. This is nice work.(posted 8599 days ago)By the way. I've learned another thing. It is almost impossible to show how to post images to greenspun.com (not photo.net) forums in a clear, concise, meaningful, and reliable way because in ones examples it's difficult to include the left (less than) and right (greater than) angle-brackets unless you include escape characters which makes it a pain. The best way, of course, is to examine the "source" of another's post that includes an image. But I don't mind visiting the gallery area of photo.net as you have included here.