Well I am so happy I can't explain. I got lot of nice comment & rating on this photograph. I will like to thank all the commentator's & voter's.
This is the photograph of my daughter. Well she likes to observe the bus & traffic on the road through the small window in the gallery. Because of her natural expression (which child's all the time give) I was able to capture the nice photograph.
But in the hurry of capturing the photo I left somewhat more space behind her. So I have to crop the photo more which in the end I thought gave a square look rather than a landscape so I added that type of border to look more like landscape, which I think really added the photo.
By using channel mixture for making B & W, using sepia filter I was able to achieve the tonal range.
I agree, I removed the noise too much but because of that I think child's skin became smoother, softer & clean, which I personally like very much so I can't avoid the temptation for doing that.
Beautiful! Stunning! I love this picture :) The textures between the hair and skin are quite striking as well. I don't like the boarder, but it won't reduce your score from me in this case.