Just checking in briefly from my new extra limited all-work-no-play account (and please donīt ask me how I got that e-mail address - it was an accident, I swear!)(posted 8527 days ago)I love this portrait for most of the reasons stated above. Some of the comments just makles me wonder about the ever-mysterious (to me) beauty issue... "Prettier than life girls" for instance - what are they? Why is this woman not a perfect beauty? She has grace, charm and personality - clear skin and pretty hair. OK, I know that between men and women, different standards apply - and maybe in the case of Mr. Vancosin, different stages of evolution - but isnīt the current beauty ideal, embodied by such characters as Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Elle Mcpherson etc. merely a set of industrial norms, calculated to fit a product, rather than an expression of actual desires and wishes of men and women? Well then, MOST men and women :) - Just trying to understand what makes this girl less than "prettier than life"...
:) Christel