I respect your opinion. The image could be cropped tightly essentially showing nothing but the girl. However as a photograph, as an image I derive pleasure from looking at I stand by the cropping choice I made.
Peter,
I admit to the lie. My choice comes with a brutal cost: falsity!
Your choice tells the truth and gives us valid context. If one does do the crop, that’s a new artistic creation, (that may or may not be more worthy), that’s not what was seen, merely what I “imagined up”. Moreover, intimacy it implies would be illusionary, (however technically perfect), it appeared.
So there we are!
A pleasant girl caught in a private moment, but her private “space” wasn’t broached!
Perfect!
Asher