I think this girl is in my English class in college. I was looking up her name (Stephanie Marchione), and it led to this link. It totally looks like her, except she's a little bit thinner now. She's a pre-med student at CSU Sacramento. Anyway, nice picture.

The 'ugly' is ironic (as she is not)

Hi Don, It's not easy taking a bad picture of Stephanie, she's a lovely and cooperative model.

Hi Photobug, Thank you for your kind comments. Doug

Hi May,

Thank you for commenting. Yes this is an example of backlighting, in this case by the sun. This was done with the Canon 70-200mm, f2.8L lens.