June 14, 2009 7:35pm An elegant background, angle, pose, hair and lines...and...as you wish it...your eyes are the darkest part of the photo. We are drawn to you with the attractive tones and casual attire and pose...and then almost rebuffed by the intense and possibly protective or cool image. It is, quite possibly, the real you and a noble image. My college sweetheart would have posed exactly as this and held an internal beauty a stranger must earn.