boy, i'd hate to see that look from one of mine, especially if in a checkout line...ay-yi-yi! love this take on the challenge--nice to have a break from signs and guns!
You certainly get your point across. I would not want to get on the wrong side of this queen unless I was her mother. Then I think I would want to "dethrone" (and I mean that in the figurative sense only) her as ruler of the domestic domain. You evoked immediate and intense emotion within me, and that is certainly one measure of the success of a piece. Great technical choice in bringing down the brightness and up the contrast so that our focus is exclusively on the subject and the amazing job you did in capturing her expression. Really fantastic image!
Ooh, that's a good reason :) I like that. Children love to see how much authority they have on others. She looks really annoyed. The way she folds her arms adds to that. Nice idea, but I'd have liked her shirt to be brighter.