Sunny girl

Sunny girl, originally uploaded by stevefhobbs.

This shot was taken in Nepal, and the little girl in question was delightful, very happy was fascinated in the camera and didnt mind a bit that she was the centre of attention (one comment i received on flickr was tha\t the shot was too exploitative) and i got really lucky with the light, it was about 3pm (sun sets at 5pm). The reason i think the shot works so well, aside from the light, is the angle, i got down to her height, which makes all the difference on portraits of children in my experience, a lesson I learnt from this shot!!