The curtain

This is so lovely, brilliant image!

beautiful idea
love the colours !

more and more amazed me Malen…just beautiful..

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

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

You are so amazingly creative, Love this piece!

so very nice, love it

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

LOVE IT!!!

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

Just stunning – wonderful romantic and eternal image .)

Fabulous image.

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…

Great work!

So clever!!

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

Very clever shot – well done!

fabulous

I can see a fairy…........

Great work!

Absolutely enchanting.

incredible shot… well done… Love it!

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

Your work makes me smile :)

truly a work of art

Great work!

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.

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

Your work is magical, ethereal, and stunning.

beautiful,,, well done

great light and tones

Wow beautiful work!!!!!

precious

perfection as always!

this is superb…. !!!

i love this piece. so sweet and beautiful.

Just sublime!!!

great photo.

Gorgeous photo.

amazing great texture,my fav!

amazing great texture,my fav!

great capture!

this is awesome!

Wonderful work!!

Wow! I love this!!!

whoa! stunning!

That’s fantastic..!

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

This is a stunning picture…well done!

i love this.

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!

Wonderful shot – your work is stunning.

really well captured mood – perfect

Stunning! Amazing!

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

Beautifully composed and masterfully executed…

this is beautiful

Wonderful inviting image

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

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

Visual treat. Such a clever composition and glorious colour.

Nice Photo !

Brilliant shot!
LOVE IT!!

You remember… Beautiful..

Aw this is a beautiful image. Well captured.

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

I love the editing! Amazing.

Fantastic :)K

Marvelous!!!!!! Kim

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

HOW COOL!!!

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

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

Impressive, great work

lovely and sweet..

Awesome photo!

This is really lovely, great work

I want to look out the window too!

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

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.

nice symbolism here.

So cute and brilliant!!!

Wow! Love this!

very imaginative. I think Dennis has some excellent suggestions. Would like to keep some of the bottom of the curtain though. Adds character. Great work

awww

that is a wonderful photo
cuute. =D

wonderful capture!!!

Fantastic work..One of the best child images I’ve seen….

I also found it so helpful to read good connstructive critique as well, it’s so helpful in learning.

Wow, this is just awesome. I love it. :)

I love this image Jacqueline, it is so beautiful!!