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Is it a good picture though? I agree that it's an interesting subject but there's little that makes it good other than an interesting subject. Just because someone has a beautiful model in their portrait does not mean it's a good photo right?

Also I didn't realize that it won the "breaking news photography" award, which makes total sense to me now.

Yeah, totally agree. I think the category is really important in this case! In general I agree about just taking a picture of something pretty, but in this case "right place right time" is by default gonna be an important factor.