I was going through some of the galleries of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, and entered this room. I saw this scene and stopped in my tracks. I stood there and tried to decide whether or not this was a picture! How stupid is that? Instead of reaching for my camera on my belt, I just stood there trying to decide! Duh! By the time I got my camera out, the woman had walked away! So I chalked it up to a loss of an interesting photo. I continued to look at some other paintings, and then walked back toward this gallery. I was looking for the woman, and found her. So I walked up to her and asked a favor - would she come back and pose where I first saw her. She agreed, and I took this photograph, and showed it to her, of course, and thanked her. That was a lot of work - I should have been quicker on the draw the first time I saw this! What I love about this picture is the shape of the woman's head and her hair. And the fact that it is two portraits in the same frame. I am so thankful that she agreed to come back and pose for me.
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