Monk COntemplating

He had just done his rituals on us as a group and agreed to a

portrait.....

Seems like a rare find! Nice job!

I think what makes this photo not work for me (in my opinion) is that it doesn't tell anything about the person/religion/culture/etc. There is a sense of the exotic, depending on what your life experiences have consisted of, but it would have made the photo stronger to have seen the monk engaged in something that depicts something of the life of a monk in such an environment. Maybe if he was meditating with his eyes closed, even that small difference would have made the photo have more intrinsic interest. Just a thought.