Sebastian, if I may make a suggestion. This is a very wonderful image. An emotional moment in time. The feeling here is wonderful. But to make it even more wonderful I feel you could isolate the mothers face, upper body, and the baby better by darkening all the rest of the image. Leave just the mothers gazing at the baby light and darken the rest of the scene thereby isolating the mothers gaze at her precious new baby. The reason i would do this is that when I first looked at the image, I couldn't readily see the imfant and had to work at "seeing" the mothers gaze and the infant. If you darkened the area around the mother, focussing the viewers attention on the mothers gaze then I think this image would be much stronger. This has prize winner all over it. Good image.
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