At the center of this composition, a naked girl stands poised at the base of a rocky cliff facing a body of water in this black and white vertical photograph. Light glints off her pale skin in a way that makes it look almost like burnished metal. Her dark hair falls over her shoulders in wet cords. Her body is angled away from us but we see her face in profile. She stands tall, her chin lifted, her eyes downcast, her lips together, perhaps blowing out a breath. Her arms reach straight by her sides next to her buttocks, and her hands are lifted outward, like small wings. She stands balanced on the rock’s edge, her feet together and her toes angled down. The body of water to our right is mostly ink black, but white clouds reflect in its shiny surface in the lower right corner. The girl and the rocky cliff behind her are in crisp focus. Blurry in the background, more tree-covered cliffs fill in most of the rest of the photograph, except for a patch of white sky in the upper right corner. Bright sunlight there washes out the trees nearby.