A beautifully conceived portrait, Patricia. She frames her unborn child, while you frame her standing before a field illuminated by blown-out background highlights. Technically, this image fails to meet traditional exposure standards, since blown out highlights such as these are considered by some to be over-exposed and therefore "unacceptable". Yet symbolically, this over exposed background suggests the unknown world that awaits this child, and its mother as well. In a way, it is similar to how your blown out windows symbolized a clean slate in your high school stairway image. (http://www.pbase.com/windchimewalker/image/86698700 ) Ultimately, there are no exposure "standards" in expressive photography. Exposure must have something to say, and it certainly does here, Patricia.
