Your daughter is a natural born model, you know that, right? Gotta love your shots, David. They always teach me something new. And congratulations for letting your children playing freely with nature, instead of locking them at home because you are afraid they might catch the flu, or something like that... :)

One word: Amazing... and another: Gorgeous. And one question, too, if I may. When I read your tweet about the rain and you shooting some photos there, I thought: Yeah, that's what I want to do for a long time now. But I was wondering how did you protect your camera from the rain?

Greetings form germany.

Buonaluce: thanks. As for letting the kids play with nature: if we were still in the UK I might have worried about them catching a chill, but it's a lot warmer here in Bulgaria so I don't think they'll come to any harm :)

Stephan: thanks too. As for your question: for part of the time I was shooting from under one of our balconies, but the 1Ds Mark II, when hooked up to an L series lens, is pretty much weatherproof anyway; i.e. it doesn't matter if it gets rained on. One way of protecting a non-weatherproof camera, that you might want to try, is to place your camera in a clear plastic bag. Cut a hole in one end, and tape this around the lens hood, and access the camera controls from the open end of the bag. It's a bit fiddly, but it does work.

Very nice job, and amazing gaze !

Stunning frame / timing / model / pose / eyes / attention / use of frame / highkey / processing and tone.
I could go on, but won't. You know its a winner.

CJ

Amazing shot. The wet hair in front of her eyes makes this shot work. Well done.

Striking image! Her countenance is beautiful and beyond her years. Don't know what else to say... the water drops on her face... you can see the weight of the water on her hair... the position of her hand... great capture of a beautiful young lady. Those eyes!

Carlos

Beautiful, enjoyed the video too. Could do with a spot of rain here!

I've loved all of your portraits with this processing--is this the LAB color process? I've done some portraits by desaturating with the Channel Mixer and then "bleeding" some color back in by lowering the opacity.

Whatever the process, it's a captivating image!

She almost look like wild Mowgli here :)
Very 'tough' look she gives us, love the result!

This is one of the most beautiful shot I've ever seen!

that's a very cool shot. What a great look she has, so tough. Feel like the photographer is annoyin her and want him away. I love the mood there !

Once again, proof positive, that one picture is worth a thousand words. And in this case, as with so many of your pictures, each of those words is a superlative that is yet a mere shadow of the picture itself.

The impish pose here, for me, is reminiscent of the artwork of Brian Froud and his wife’s.

Really nice portrait. Your daughter will be a model as she seems professional in front of your camera. Just a technical question... What was the background?

Dan: no, this was done in RGB, in much the way you suggested; i.e. using the Channel Mixer to partially desaturate the image. The only thing I added was a Curve to slightly alter the colour balance.

Benoit: the background was a white wall.

get shot! she really has learned how to make contact with the camera and that old model trick of how to smile with only your eyes. love the softness have here.

A mysterious look like that deserves such a impressive photo like this one. As always the postedition work is superb.

What a look! She's incredible. Nice post processing.

Fantastic capture. Extremely impressed by her grace and natural knack for posing!

Wow wow wow
Impressive...

Fantastic! The look in her eyes is facinating, and the way she holds her hand in front of her like that I start to wonder what situation this is... THe post production is spot on, really excellent work!

Thanks everyone :)

Maravilloso trabajo, como siempre. Gracias por compartir.
Wonderful work as always. Thanks for sharing.

This photo looks great!

Oh boy! Perfect! As i used to say, you two together make always amazing photos! She is a goddess and what you can do with a camera is a miracle :) well done!

Wow. Isn't this a teensy bit Lolita-esque to be shooting your own daughter? Her hand over her mouth in that vaguely sexual, "ooops...." way. How bizarre.

Andrew: she's a seven year old, posing as she sees fit, while you're an adult, interpreting this image as you see fit. And while I wouldn't say that your opinion was bizarre, I would say that it says more about you than it does about Rhowan or myself.

Are you implying her head's posture, hand, and wet hair was not in any way to be interpreted as risque? If so, that strikes me as incredibly naive, and if not, it again qualifies as bizarre. And "bizarre" is just a nice way to say it.

Andrew: no, I'm not saying that, I'm saying that we each see the world from our own perspective, i.e. I look at this image as a parent, and as someone who is familiar with the way in which children play. You chose another way to look at it, hence my original point: that your comment says more about you than it does about the image itself.

Composition, expression and look is fantastic. Just the DOF is not good. Looks like most of it is not properly focused. It's especially distracting for the eye at the left and the hand.

again, this is an image where the emotional content trumps everything else. it doesn't need to be any sharper. i think great art should always draw you in and make you ask questions. i'd say this one's done it in spades.

wp.

This shot reminds me of the work of Sally Mann; that's not a good thing.

I feel Andrew's point was valid.