Photograph of a striking woman with freckled olive skin and two heavy plaited ropes of hair caught turning, with a hard source directly behind her flaring into the lens and blowing a large area of the frame to clean white. Long combed mohair roving falling from a skirt hem, hundreds of strands all sweeping one way across the frame on a diagonal, transmitting the backlight so they run from blown white on the light side through a pale tint to a deep saturated cyan to white flare where they mass, individual strands catching as bright single lines. The ground behind is a graded cyan to white flare, palest at the light and richest in the far corner. Her face sits high in the frame, small and clear of the fibre, lifted into the light with her eyes looking far off. Wet and glossy in a warm neutral brown. One hue family throughout, the deepest value in the frame a rich saturated version of it rather than a black. Caught mid-turn and alive, the face composed.