Simon, you have me stumped!!!

I just don’t know whether I like it or I don’t (this is a personal thing – nothing to do with your photography, I’m not critising it)

I absolutely love her expression! It is a completely successful portrait!

What I personally am having trouble with, and this is me being an old stick in the mud traditional portraitist, is this:

Was this taken with a “lens baby”? Or did you do some fantastic thing with PhotoShop?

The lighting is very flat so it’s two dimentional.

The background is stark white so the background is brighter than the subject. The background doesn’t highlight the foreground – the best way I can put this is, the background isn’t – it doesn’t exist – it’s a picture pasted on a blank piece of paper.

Having said all that, I go back to what I said at the beginning. This is a completely successful portrait. There is no doubt what the photo is of (the subject), and no doubt of the personality of the subject.

Thanks for submitting this.

Thanks for succeeding with an alien approach (to me). A new breed of portrait photographer is out there! 20+ years ago I was one and now I’m starting to look like a past driven “has been”. Thanks a lot, mate! (gee sarcasm is hard to convey in a sentence) !:)