Oh, man! This is wonderful - now I don't know which to pick as my favorite.... Both are exquisite! I think I'm leaning a bit towards this one just because the light is sooooo wonderful. Wow!

Awesome scene, love the lighting, beautiful character!

Looks like a single frame shot from a Hollywood movie. Kewl!

Cool image!!!

Wow! All is teally superb in this scene: character, pose, expression, lighting, decor, reflects... we just would to go talk to this pretty lady! Awesome image, Barb!

Titles like, Orient Express spring to mind here! Lovely Barbara!

Yes, Steve, this is supposed to be the Orient Express :) Guess you didn't read my description in the previous upload of this image :)

Good to see in colour, lovely image.

Absolutely superb!

nice! like that pose. off to see the previous image you did...

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Amazing work love the natural look of sunlight. Outstanding job

Beautiful! Congrats!

Nice work

I just had to comment on this and the transformed version of it. You evoke the opulence and mystery of cross-european train travel, all the way to the 'Orient' (a term which I assume evokes a whole other world, long gone from our mindset now), and the mix of luxury with the allure of secret love affairs, of a culture (the 'east') so alluring to the west yet so misunderstood, and of the sense of gliding through lands in the comfort of a luxurious rail car while untouched by the world outside, yet able to view it through a pane of private glass. Boy do you capture that high luxury. I love the tones here---your browns and yellows are doused in olives, almost a midwestern pre-storm color (it gets this color, almost pea green). The light is luscious and buttery, and the shadows are deep. I love her patrician air, her laid back stance with the cigarette and holder---you don't see those very much anymore!---and tones in her dress that match the olives and reds of the rest of the image. Love the champagne bucket and flowers too; and the muted landscape outside. Really beautifully done, Barb.

Then the transformed version: an old photograph, where you gave it not only the decay that unnaturally brightens the darker spots, but also the feeling of ghost images. You also made breaks in the surface (the photograph's surface); and her sleeves---they remind me of Mona Lisa's, with their transparent-veil feeling, which gives her an even more ghostly cast. And you've desaturated those darker hues to create the feel of a light-bleached, old photo, with pale beiges and off-whites, all doused in sepia. Ugly beauty, decayed and beautiful all at once. Wonderful evocation of the wash of time, and how the nobility and staunchness of your original woman is now sunken in the ghostly cast of forever-lost time. Terrific, Barb.

(btw---you were right about the use of "artifact"---I was just being colloquial, in the sense of 'historical artifacts', but you're right, a shirt is a genuine artifact. I just think of those masks turning to that old cotton plaid shirt, and saying, "what's YOUR pedigree, a-hole???") (years back, we had endless heated debates about "what is art?" which we were all in on, sometimes to near fights...we were all committed to "is a child's doodle art? (Yes. Absolutely.) Is it art when someone breaks sticks in a huge silent auditorium? (John Cage and other experimental musicians) Yep. It's something to hear, and he had dancers dance to it (the Merce Cunningham troupe). Those days seem ages away now, but boy were we hot and heavy about it then. Thanks as always for your comments, barb, they are much appreciated, along with your observations)