Close-Ups...

One of the best gifts Luisa ever gave me was a copy of Ancient Faces . Recently, the same exhibition has been traveling and while visiting relations in France and Switzerland I was delighted to see they had the same book, confirming our similar interests...

If I were going to try categorize the woman in these photos using an "Ancient Faces" metric: The woman above reminds me of the beautiful pale middle-England's born into the ranks of the middle English gentry around the time of Cromwell...

The woman below looks like a duchess...