a portrait...

thx for clicking/viewing....

This is an amazing portraiture with a strong expression.

Very good managed light, and color aswell.

Yes very nice light and a fine character, well done.

Striking ... and, as someone else noted, the lighting helps make this a very strong portrait. There's a part of me that wants just a little more illumination on the gentleman's left side, enough to better discern the lines outlining the top of the eyelid and the left corner of the mouth, but this is so close to being perfect it may just be my computer display.

Excellent portrait.

I'm viewing this image on a different computer with a monitor with obviously better brightness settings than the one I used when I made my previous comment. I can now see the detail that I spoke of previously, so I thought it would be only fair of me to come back and say ... disregard what I said earlier about the illumination. The display I see now shows exactly what I was looking for! Musin, very nice portrait!

you picked the absolute perfect angle catching the complementarity of shapes of head, beard, moustache, nose, eyes - this among many other aspects like lighting, color, expression achieve a striking gestalt. The effect is that this portrait is far more than a picture of one particular individual.