Re: PAW - Mexican Girl

[Gonz]

Beautiful.  I wonder what was to the left and whether framing her on the 
right to get rid of the distracting people in the background, leaving 
only the arches above her, would have looked.  Her is expression is 
fantastic.  You  cannot see her direct smile, because she is covering 
it, (I am familiar with this gesture of shyness in Mexican people when 
their pic is taken), but you can see the smile in her eyes.

rg

Shel Belinkoff wrote:

This was taken on my "chicken bus" trip through Mexico.  I
have no recollection of what little town we stopped in when
this photo was made.  I was wandering through town and came
across this courtyard, and was about to leave when this
little girl appeared, and approached me.  I fell in love
with her simple beauty, her openness, and her underlying
shyness.
She was covered with large warts or lumps, which are just
barely visible in this screen presentation (which is still a
work in progress), and the contrast between her facial
expression (evident even behind her hands) and her
affliction was startling.
Maybe you'll see in her what I saw ...

http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/mexican-girl.html

shel