First please accept my apologies for the late reply, been away on holiday!
Thanks for you comments and thoughts, the inspiration for this shot was some work I saw produced by David Bailey of the actress Twiggy many years ago.
My photo of Katy was taken in a field of long grass the sun was quite high and I was using a speedlight mounted on a stand as a fill, fired by Pocket Wizard's, for some reason (dead batteries) it didn't fire for this shot which left me with very flat lighting on her face and very strong accent lighting the resulting image was heading for the reject bin until I converted it to B&W and realised its potential! Goes to show you should never bin any shots until you have explored all avenues!
Katy loves writing (fantasy and horror mainly) it was this dark side I was trying to capture with the hard stare and cold expression, not having the highlights in the eyes has added to the mysterious persona I think.
Gregg