Black and White and Natural Light

My get pushed partner Lianna @kiwinanna challenged me to do a "black and white portrait using natural light - it can be a selfie, a street portrait or a friend/workmate." I've been really busy this past week, so I just got around to the challenge today. It's a self portrait because my mother declined to be the model (I was at her apartment after we did our grocery shopping, using my food chopper to grind up cranberries, pecans, an apple, an orange etc for a cranberry relish/salad she was making for Easter dinner at my brother's house tomorrow.

[Mary Siegle]

@kiwianna here's a self portrait in natural light.

[Walks @ 7]

Nicely done. A touch of mystery.

[katy]

I really like thsi Mary. Fabulolus choice of composition. Save me some of that salad too will you?

[Saskia Holditch]

Hi! I'm your get pushed partner this week. Looked through your albums, gorgeous pictures! I challenge you to bokeh. Cheers!

[Taffy]

This is wonderful. So well composed, and b&w processing works well.
Thanks for your visits/favs today!

[Mary Siegle]

@joysabin @taffy Thanks so much for stopping to comment.
@grammyn There was some salad leftover and Mom left me with a bit. It's in a small plastic container; if you want to stop by, I'll share. :-)

[Liana Bull]

@mcsiegle This is really good. The light and your composition are lovely. Good thinking to do your self portrait looking at the view - and natural light.

[Dawn]

A lovely image fav

[katy]

@mcsiegle LOL You are too generous

[eliza]

Nice edit

[aikimomm (phoebe)]

Very nicely done, Mary. You look so thoughtful here, looking out your mom's window.

[Granagringa]

So well done...I' really impressed with how good the focus is when you obviously had to set when you weren't in the frame. I've not tried anything like this so I am intrigued!