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Bella, Sole Bella
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This is one of my favorite portraits. Not only for the subject, or the portrait itself, but for how much the moment in which I took the picture is special to me. This is my cousin, she is the very typical category of 10-year-old Brazilian girl. She is very talkative and playful, but she also had a "model side', as my sister and I like to point out. She is very pretty and can bring meaning to any picture she is the subject of. This picture was spontaneous, my cousins, my sister and I were walking in a park in Taunton and it was a sunny, beautiful day, and she insisted that I took a picture of her. So I did, and the result was great.
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Dongsaeng
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This one is my favorite portrait of all times. My sister is a good person, she really is, but she has her tough moments. I chose to go walk, and she came with me. It was only my sister and I, just walking around and chatting like usual. I asked her if I could take a picture of her, and she said yes. I could not explain how devastated I was at that moment, the moment in which I took the picture, because she knew - we all knew - she ruined every moment my family and I had together and for her to not be so defensive and disturbing, the only person she could be around was my older cousin or I. She's astonishing, a brilliant person, but she has her down beats. The "troubled waters" of the picture did not come from her, instead they came from me. We haven't talked the same way ever since, so I just hold on to this picture as a memory.
