This is my neice, Raine, who you have seen before. She is 4 1/2. This was taken at my pre-Christmas visit. It's highly edited, but I like it that way. :)
No one is paying attention to the title. I like the stairs and don't find them a distraction at all. I like the balance of her face and the diagonal line connecting her to the stairs as well as the opposing diagonal of the hint of staircase.
wow judy .. this is so dramatic .. it has such a powerful feel to it ..
evokes such emotion .. i'm thinking stairway to heaven .. !!! .. and a whole heap of other stuff .. !!
i find this a very spiritual image .. and love your gritty processing .. :)
i dont use the term 'breathtaking' often judy but i will here, this one stopped me DEAD in my tracks. wow. my first fav in this side challenge!
i had to come back and add more, everything about this is great! the stairs up above and he little bit if flying hair makes a story.
young girl living in the inner city coming down the stairs of a large apartment complex,going out to play in the cold and noise of the city, i can hear the horns honking and traffic rushing....
Very dramatic portrait. She almost seems sad, and the dark feel of the portrait kinda leads me toward that feeling also. The open white area to the right is a little distracting to me.
Cool albeit non-traditional edit. To my eye the white thing on the right adds some balance, but you might crop out about half of it so it plays a smaller part in the image.