Oh, Mike, you are SO good!
I like the first post best! Perhaps you could repost that image in the "Photographing your subject" topic, as well as describing the light, time of day, how you managed to place your subject against such a strong backlight without losing any information, etc. (You know I just like to think up extra things to ask people to do on a Saturday morning.)
Administrator's note: Mike has posted details on the photgraphy of his subject at http://forum.portraitartist.com/show...threadid=1048. Thank you, Mike, great post.