I have a mixed reaction to this being a nude. Her face is so compellingly beautiful that seeing her breast and pubic region seems like a distraction. Believe me, I have no issues at all with nudes, but she could be draped with fabric, and be even more visually attractive! (Rats! I don't mean to suggest for a moment that her body is the least bit unattractive...it's gorgeous...but I'm just thinking of the elements of the picture.)
She really is arrestingly beautiful, and you conveyed it with skill. Her face just draws me in like a magnet, and I rest my eyes on her amazing face. She seems so peaceful. The blend of textures in your photograph is also very interesting, and I appreciate the fabric draped over parts of her body. I love to look at the braid of hair too... For some reason that catches my attention, maybe because its shape resonates with her angle and stature. Very well done. I've come back to this many times to study it.
Thomas, thank you for your kind words about this image. I try as much as possible to let the subject take me where they want to go emotionally and I believe that Brianna has accomplished that in this photograph.
The power of this is in the eyes, as it so often is with portraits of any type. For me, the braid is important in unifying the face and torso. A personality clue, perhaps.
We've all had it happen. You walk into a public place preoccupied with whatever. Then you look up and are instantly rendered breathless. Not like a creep or pervert or dirty old man, or woman. Just honestly, legitimately and totally astounded by what you see.
The face of that random person who walked by, or sat down across, or paused momentarily, just happens to be breathtakingly beautiful. Not merely pedestrian beautiful. Those are a dime a dozen. No. More like, nobody can be that beautiful, beautiful. It's gotta' be illegal to be that beautiful, beautiful. Struck dead by lightening beautiful.
And so you stand, or lean, or sit, faking non-interest, but transfixed, watching only that face. Wide-eyed amazement. Disbelief even. Wondering if it really is a zero-sum game. Considering in innocent good faith how many others had been statistically doomed to physical mediocrity, possibly even including yourself, in order that just this one should have been so blessed. And you wonder if they even realize it themselves. Or realize the power it confers. Or the doors it opens.
And then a moment later that person simply walks away. And it's over...
It doesn't happen often. The odds are so against it. Often years pass. Which of course then makes it so much more fascinating when it does happen.
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