The curtain

vonne, 8 months ago

Your SO creative!!!

SylviaHardy, 8 months ago

This is so lovely, brilliant image!

Victor(Vic) Be..., 8 months ago

beautiful idea
love the colours !

Mariska, 8 months ago

more and more amazed me Malen…just beautiful..

TrEaSuReDiMaGeS, 8 months ago

Absolutely Gorgeous Malen!! A beautiful addition to our group :-)

cheerishables, 8 months ago

Really beautiful … Almost looks like a painting behind the window. Very creative and very dreamy!

Basia McAuley, 8 months ago

You are so amazingly creative, Love this piece!

Mien, 8 months ago

so very nice, love it

ginnymac, 8 months ago

i think this is just so wonderful ,very interesting, and beautifully composed.

Madison Ellis, 8 months ago

LOVE IT!!!

Nicole Goggins, 8 months ago

I just LOVE all of your work – it’s so inspiring!

Robert Knapman, 8 months ago

Just stunning – wonderful romantic and eternal image .)

birdinsun, 8 months ago

Fabulous image.

Paul Tupman, 8 months ago

Fabulous work.. the colour in this is magical and I love the view through the curtain.. you always bring such great imagination to your work…

Antanas, 8 months ago

Great work!

Jacq Wilson, 8 months ago

So clever!!

Douzy, 8 months ago

Amazing work again, love the way you mix your layers.

Margot Kiesskalt, 8 months ago

Very clever shot – well done!

shanghaiwu, 8 months ago

fabulous

Rusty Woodward..., 8 months ago

I can see a fairy…........

Headcrime, 8 months ago

Great work!

Lauren Zorn, 8 months ago

Absolutely enchanting.

Lindsay Blamey, 8 months ago

incredible shot… well done… Love it!

minnielee, 8 months ago

I absolutely love your style! I just got back from browsing your gallery. Beautiful work!!

Naomi Mawson, 8 months ago

Your work makes me smile :)

Paul Gana, 8 months ago

truly a work of art

MarkoBeslac, 8 months ago

Great work!

Barbara Sparhawk, 7 months ago

Yes, take back the curtain, what we all try and do. You’ve captured this wonderfully.
You take remarkable photographs, at once both eerie and engaging. Breathless glimpses.

joolz, 7 months ago

This is so gorgeous Malen. I love all your work of children.

Kerry McFarland, 7 months ago

Your work is magical, ethereal, and stunning.

midzing, 6 months ago

beautiful,,, well done

orourke, 6 months ago

great light and tones

AngelPhotozzz, 6 months ago

Wow beautiful work!!!!!

cherylc1, 6 months ago

precious

Charles Winslow, 6 months ago

perfection as always!

meanderthal, 6 months ago

this is superb…. !!!

Redlac, 6 months ago

i love this piece. so sweet and beautiful.

Heather Hartkamp, 6 months ago

Just sublime!!!

Geri Bragg, 6 months ago

great photo.

Erin Lyall, 6 months ago

Gorgeous photo.

jerry alcantara, 6 months ago

amazing great texture,my fav!

jerry alcantara, 6 months ago

amazing great texture,my fav!

mieclarke, 6 months ago

great capture!

Sandy Clifton, 6 months ago

this is awesome!

Al Bourassa, 6 months ago

Wonderful work!!

Lisa Putman, 6 months ago

Wow! I love this!!!

LozKat, 6 months ago

whoa! stunning!

Birgitta, 6 months ago

That’s fantastic..!

Natalie Perkins, 6 months ago

The shadows are brilliant, I feel like I could come past and tug on the curtain!

Cherie Dirksen, 6 months ago

This is a stunning picture…well done!

girlinthestars, 6 months ago

i love this.

Tanya B. Schro..., 6 months ago

This is so wonderful, Malen. I favorited it a few days ago, but wanted to come back and really take another look. You’ve captured the child’s inquisitiveness so perfectly and the muted colors inside juxtaposed with the bright, colorful, inviting light outside adds to the story. Really great – I wish I’d made this piece of art!

NervousNellie, 6 months ago

Wonderful shot – your work is stunning.

Kuntal Daftary, 6 months ago

really well captured mood – perfect

randi1972, 6 months ago

Stunning! Amazing!

Paul Vanzella, 6 months ago

What an amazing visual – colour tone and style just work so well…. Great piece of work!

Thomas Dodd, 6 months ago

Beautifully composed and masterfully executed…

Kelly Boyle, 6 months ago

this is beautiful

Jing3011, 6 months ago

Wonderful inviting image

William Grow, 6 months ago

wow, that is an amazing peice of art. Truly captivating. I can only imagine what’s going through her mind.

palegirl, 6 months ago

That is sooo very clever, the colours are simply delighfull !

ltruskett, 6 months ago

Visual treat. Such a clever composition and glorious colour.

Troy Simon, 6 months ago

Nice Photo !

Jodie Carruthers, 6 months ago

Brilliant shot!
LOVE IT!!

velveteagle, 6 months ago

You remember… Beautiful..

Ramona Farrelly, 6 months ago

Aw this is a beautiful image. Well captured.

jellybeannnn, 6 months ago

wow, this is a really beautiful picture.
i love it.

TaintedTiffyy, 6 months ago

I love the editing! Amazing.

KCphoto, 6 months ago

Fantastic :)K

KBSImages, 6 months ago

Marvelous!!!!!! Kim

Dennis Gay IPA, 6 months ago

G’day Maren,

This is a cracker of a shot!

The subject matter is very interesting, conjuring many guesses as to just what the child is thinking and what is beyond the window in the garden and you have made a great photograph of that.

HOWEVER!

I feel that as it is now there is just too much wasted space in the frame. You have to ask yourself just what is the subject here and just how well do you want to present it. To my mind and eye this fine photograph needs a drastic and dramatic crop that will give much more impact to the child and curtain and justify why the child’s legs have been cut out of the image by your framing in camera. I strongly suggest cropping to bring the top edge of frame down to just above the clouds and our right edge of frame in far enough to leave a little space beside the first discernible flower behind the curtain.
I also strongly suggest cropping to bring the bottom edge of frame up to eliminate the skirtingboard as this will further contain the very best of this scene.
All this could probably be well contained as an 8×10 standard size.

Your exposure under the great lighting is very well done and your focus has rendered a nice crisp, clear image of the child and curtain showing lovely detail.
The colours are refreshingly natural and the contrasts most pleasing.
Lovely work!

GB
Dennis

Perspective, 6 months ago

HOW COOL!!!

Malen, 6 months ago

Dennis

Thank you so much for your thorough comments on the picture, I’ll give it a try once I’m back home to see how it would look with your suggested crop…

All the best

ninaav, 6 months ago

I like this, it has something so sweet. :)

Rajdev Dhiman, 6 months ago

Impressive, great work

Indah Susanti, 6 months ago

lovely and sweet..

sadmachine, 6 months ago

Awesome photo!

Juliette Steen, 6 months ago

This is really lovely, great work

joolz, 6 months ago

I want to look out the window too!

Nikki Trexel, 5 months ago

incredible!! i’m SO glad i found your work!! :)

carol brandt, 3 months ago

Definitely not your-every-day child portraiture. I love your work, had a look through it all.
I read the comments including Dennis Gray’s suggestion about this one and it’s so good of him to write a full feedback like that. I want to say that for me, cropping in further in the way Dennis suggests would take away from the whole mood, to my reading. The crumpled curtain at the bottom RHS and the skirting board is perfect and beautifully lit in terms of the rest of the image. I think you need the height in the sky to convey the depth and expanse of the child’s’ view’. I even like the fact that the legs are chopped off. To have the child framed in the middle would destroy the feeling of a ‘spontaneous’ shot of child unaware. Beautifully rendered image.

bchrisdesigns, 2 months ago

nice symbolism here.

JuliaWright, 16 days ago

So cute and brilliant!!!