... I took that picture many years ago, 15 or so and have never shown it to anyone because the file is really bad. I took it with the 5D classic and a Fujinon 135mm vintage lens, manual focus only and I totally missed focus on the girl. Her face is mush, basically. It became more presentable after running the file through DXO Pure Raw and playing with it in Photoshop. It's still bad, just less so.
You could ask why I kept such a bad pic all these years. That's hard to explain. That little girl got to me. She wasn't just bored, she looked profoundly sad. She was looking out the window at other kids playing and having fun. And she was alone, up there, in the apartment. That's one of the reasons I didn't crop the photo. I wanted to include as much of the facade as I could to make her smaller and emphasise her loneliness. I simply could not bring myself to delete her pic. ....
