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My beautiful wife, Grace.

I took this picture of her as she was wandering around some ruins at the Roman Agora, a bit west of the Ancient Agora in Athens. Unlike at the Ancient Agora, the security at the Roman Agora is rather lax — one is left with the impression that while it is a mortal sin to disturb even the gravel on the paths at a Greek archaeological site, it wouldn’t be all that frowned upon if one was somehow able to make off with an entire pillar from any ruins dating back to the Roman occupation of Greece.

(And don’t even bother looking for Persian ruins.)

Anyhow, Grace was looking at a pile of rocks that might once have been a wall, and I was mostly looking at her through the lens of my camera, and she turned and gave me this pose almost without warning. I normally hate posed shots, but this one turned out really well, and it’s now one of her favourite pictures of herself.

She really is so pretty, yes?

Edit-wise, I had to do a bit of fringe reduction, and some saturation adjustments to get her skin tone just right. But I think it would be fair to say that I’m very happy with how this picture turned out. It’s easily one of my favourite pictures I’ve ever taken, mostly because I dearly love the subject, but also because it’s just a darned good photo in general. So good, I thought, that I made it one of the pictures that rotates randomly through the left half of the site’s header.

~ by Kenneth on January 20, 2008.