Thank YOU, texasflower. Your #10,345 was very kind. My interest is never to try to shove my opinions down the throats of others. Rather, it is to express my viewpoint in the best way I can, and then let others decide for themselves what they think about it.
I sure do understand why people like Carrie, and why she won. As I said many times, she deserved to win. I can't put into words whatever turned me off her. It's something visceral. Everyone who looks at this photo will see something different. Rightly or wrongly, what I see are a cold, hard, wary pair of eyes in a beautiful face sporting a Mona Lisa-like smile. I simply can't get past what, to me, are a dead pair of eyes.
I don't see that at all. I see an impish smile beginning and a twinkle in the eyes. She looks like someone that likes to laugh, have fun and maybe even be a prankster.