2008-11-30 // 17:18:53
My.Iowa

well, sometimes your eyes see/understand what you could never have planned for--that's the most special thing, i think.
tulips--definitely! and take a picture...

2008-11-30 // 16:58:45
My.Iowa

a bit mad...seeing paintings everywhere these days, but this looks like a dutch painting to me...
the collar, the turn of her head and her pose.
(and i love tricolor coat with divisions of pipe and blocks in the background--three high in the pic! well, 2 1/2. humor me.)

^

Oh dear M, how I treasure your words! No offense to anyone else reading but this fine lady right here makes me giggle and/or cry with delight.

You know, when I took this I didn't know quite how to read it. I liked it at once, no question about it (Pernilla is a very warm person), but didn't really know what made it special in my eyes (that is, what made me select this particular shot in front of the few others I took during that same walk from the lunch restaurant back to her school).

Then you come along and things start falling into place. I honestly didn't see what you just pointed out - how the wall and her coat seem to coexist. Now if only I could've found a dog to put next to her feet, and a few tulips sticking out of the drain pipe, then I could've just as well marked it as shot in being Amsterdam.

I guess next time I see her I'm bringing said tulips?

2008-11-28 // 20:43:17
desao
This is indeed a lovely portrait, but it's the background that draws my wonder. The giant drainpipe, archaic gutter, and that wall - monoliths made of tiny stones?
Textured and wonderful

desao

2008-11-28 // 13:26:38
mattjudas
love the mood!
^

Thank you mister Judas ; )

The same evening the first snow fell, so technically this was the last of the autumn light.

2008-11-28 // 13:21:05
Eric
extra portrait, love the colors and the atmosphere.
^

Thank you Eric. She is a good and warm person - I think that adds to the atmosphere!

2008-11-28 // 11:35:21
LATELIERp
beautiful portrait!

love the focus you got here.

are in stockholm at the moment?
going there saturday and leaving again on sunday afternoon.
maybe we can meet for a coffe...
let me know.
^

Thank you! Carrying that 600SE around is sometimes a nuisance, but then again sometimes it does good.

Sorry but I'm not in Stockholm. At the moment I'm a Hushållsnära tjänst in my hometown, since I've run out of money and can't pay rent in Örebro ; )

But I'll be back on my feet before long, though. Hoping to go to Gothenburg next fall - do you know how long you will be there for? A polameet would be nice!