Elegant and feminine portrait of a woman on a journey of self-reclamation and self-acceptance, taken by Renata Clarke, the number 1 portrait & branding photographer in Ayrshire, Scotland, serving clients in Ayrshire, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire

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