Gutterflower.

Myself as Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Photo taken by Claire [Final_Memories] at Anime Expo 2006. The original photograph suffered from poor lighting [hence the graininess], but I've always really loved the atmosphere of this shot and kept it tucked away in hopes of salvaging it one day. After tinkering around in Photoshop for a while, I came up with this: An admitted emulation of the grainy, desaturated photographs featured in the FFVIII opening credits. I'm sure there are those who could do so much more with this, but I'm fairly content with my results. [If anyone would like to try their hand at it, I would be more than happy to send them the original file. <3] Ironically, I am replaying FFVII at the moment and have been been venturing through the slums in my free time. It really is striking, how much this location reminds me of that area! As always, costume and wig constructed by myself.

Please no critiques/criticism. I'd like to keep this gallery happy! <3