My Little Havana Guy

Expression is engaging, tones are good, lighting is nicely done. 'Excellent portrait in my view.

Great image of this very charismatic soul............BR, Holger

Someone is happy even if it just a buck, well seen and post processed, nice work.

Excellent post processing!

Hi Lynne: One more of your very personal, exquisite, compelling, powerful portraits or snapshots. Impressive. A veritable conversation between you, behind the camera, and your subject. If you have time, look for Sebastian Salgao "Salt of the Earth". It is a very strong movie...how can the photographer have the "cold blood, steadiness....etc" to take the shot....where a fathomless abyss lies between the two of you, who are actually..... a few feet apart. Terrific work!

DG

Lynne,

Excellent capture,

Very natural and emotional,

Regards,

ZT,

Wow, Daniel, I am humbled to be mentioned in the same thought as Delgado. I am always challenged to find a compelling portrait when "out in life". I look for the "soul" of a person when searching a shoot. People are SO interesting and my very favorite thing to shoot.

nice one

The bw is very well processed. Beautiful capture.

Lynne, this image certainly deserved the POTD; congratulations! To me, the technical details - although meritorious - pale in comparison to the emotional value if the image. This person appears happy and/or proud to display several dollars he won playing his neighborhood's equivalent of the old numbers racket. Alternatively, his state of mind may be explained by his having a few dollars left after buying food for his family and himself. A most excellent street portrait . . .

Thanks, Michael for letting me know about this image being a POTD.

You have an impressive collection of top-quality portraits, difficult to choose one to comment upon, so please take this few words of praise and apply them equally to the rest. I find a very interesting combination of extra-sharpness and some grain, especially in this BW superb image. I am passionate for "grain", as it reminds me of my "real" dark room and the fact that one had to shoot a whole roll of high speed film and then adjust the development time and shaking process to obtain (luckily) the intended result. I used to use much of that high speed film, (1,600 ASA was the most one could commercially get, and push it a step or two....). I digress....Your photograph resonates with my style, but aside from that, it is just magnificent.

DG

Thank you Daniel for your wonderful comments. Sometimes I worry that I am making the image too grungy, but then I get a comment like yours and it makes me feel more secure in my processing.

Aces!

Such hope and a dollar bill... strong comment, nicely captured.