Valery, I loved this photo! The girl's inner expression steals the show.

A very interesting photograph. And, no offense, Valery, but your models' portraits are much more appealing without all the wine and cigarettes. Try more subtle images. I'm a viewer, not a photographer. I'm just learning. You have great creative potential. Please understand that certain attributes in your images can have the opposite effect. This is why some criticize you. I sometimes want to say the same to you, but I'm afraid of incurring your wrath. (P.S. Best wishes for success in your creative endeavors, Valery.)

Valery, I loved this photo! The girl's inner expression captures all the attention.

Elena T,
Thank you for your kind words.
This is a rarity in our unjustifiably cruel times.

Very interesting photography. And, no offense, Valery, but your models' portraits are much more appealing without the wine glasses and cigarettes. Try more subtle images. I'm a viewer, not a photographer. I'm still learning. You have great creative potential. Understand that certain attributes in images can have the opposite effect. That's why some criticize you. I sometimes want to say the same to you, but I'm afraid of incurring your wrath. (P.S. Best wishes for your creative endeavors, Valery.)

Irina Rodkina,

There can't be any hard feelings here, only a smile.
Irina, you write

I'm a viewer, not a photographer. I'm still learning.

Well, learn, and until you learn, there's no point in teaching anyone, right?
Viewers are different, just like photographers, and every photographer shoots for their own viewers.
And you're not acting as a viewer here, but as a critic, which is precisely what makes me smile.
The mistake is that you want to tailor photographs to your own taste and coloring; that's absolutely impossible and futile.
Because if I saw everything like you, did everything like you, were you, I would also be treating someone without a single photograph and probably never succeed.
I hope you didn't take what I wrote as anger or take offense.

Try more subtle images.

I shoot a variety of images, and there are probably subtle ones, in the feminine sense.
But I'm a male photographer; I see things like a man, I understand a frame like a man, I see women like a man, and all of this is reflected in my shots, one way or another, and no one can do anything about it.
Perhaps I'm not particularly subtle.))

Very interesting photography. And, no offense, Valery, but your models' portraits are much more appealing without any glasses of wine or cigarettes. Try more refined images. I'm a viewer, not a photographer. I'm just learning. You have great creative potential. Understand that certain attributes in images can have the opposite effect. That's why some criticize you. Sometimes I want to say something similar, but I'm afraid of incurring your wrath. (P.S. Best wishes for success in your creative endeavors, Valery)
Irina Rodkina,

There can be no hard feelings here, only a smile.
Irina, you write
I shoot a variety of images, and there are probably some that are refined, in the feminine sense. But I'm a male photographer, I see things like a man, I understand a shot like a man, I see women like a man, all of this is reflected in my shots one way or another, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
I guess I'm not particularly sophisticated.))

Valery Chernyshov, Valery, I'm not a critic, I'm just expressing my impressions of the photos, nothing more.))) I wish you success in your work.

Valery Chernyshov, Valery, I'm not a critic, I'm just expressing my impressions of the photos, nothing more))) I wish you success in your work.

Irina Rodkina,

I don't think anyone cares about the impressions of someone who doesn't even have a photo on their profile.
Perhaps you should impress with your own photos, not with impressions from other people's photos.
Good luck to you.