I came out of the pasture and Maria was standing on the other side of the apple tree in front of the red barn and I thought it might make an unusual portrait, taken with my Zeiss lens and monochrome camera. Maria doesn’t like posing for pictures and I don’t like posing pictures, they are rarely as good as the spontaneous ones. But she was just standing there, waiting for me, and I took the photo through the trees. I liked it. My notion of what a portrait is is expanding.