Freckles, often accompanied by red hair and fair skin, weren’t always seen as a positive… but for anybody whose ever taken portraits, you know that this combination can make for some spectacular photos.

The freckles give character, lend contrast, emphasize the eyes, and somehow manage to make someone beautiful look even more stunning.

Case in point, check out just about any of Maja Topcagic‘s images… you won’t be disappointed although you may very well get jealous.

See through by Maja Top?agi? on 500px.com

Of course, it helps when those freckles are placed on a perfect bone structure, framed by perfectly done hair, and lit & captured by a professional photographer who can take the beautiful and make it look out-of-this-world… but we digress.

Here are 30 of our favorite freckle-speckled images on 500px. Enjoy!

Summer Portrait by Brian Ingram on 500px.com

Daisies by Maja Top?agi? on 500px.com

Freckles are sexual by Darya Chacheva on 500px.com

Emeline by Lëa Mirp on 500px.com

freckles everywhere ... by hady  ... on 500px.com

Boring by I Must Be Dead  on 500px.com

the girl with freckles by Pauly Pholwises on 500px.com

*** by Tatyana Nevmerzhytska on 500px.com

Nature like she is by Darya Chacheva on 500px.com

Freckles by Jovana Rikalo on 500px.com

even more freckles ... by hady  ... on 500px.com

Summer Freckles by Crimson Photography on 500px.com

Anabel III by Michael Woloszynowicz on 500px.com

Untitled by Lena Dunaeva on 500px.com

Michelle I by Andy Elste on 500px.com

*v by Nadine Lotze on 500px.com

lara by jean | noir   on 500px.com

Lera by Kerry Moore on 500px.com

Summer white by Maja Top?agi? on 500px.com

Ginger girl by Jasenka Arbanas on 500px.com

eternity by Juliane Naumann I Photography on 500px.com

SUNNYCHILD by Irella Konof on 500px.com

Summer

C* by  PortraitsBySam on 500px.com

Luca by Agata Serge on 500px.com

some things just are the way they are by Stefan Beutler on 500px.com

*** by Malvina Frolova on 500px.com

michelle by Ana Lora Photoart on 500px.com

C* by  PortraitsBySam on 500px.com

Need more examples of freckled beauty? Click here to browse through all of the beautiful images tagged “freckles” on 500px, and then drop a link to your favorite freckled photo (yours or someone else’s) in the comments down below!