Just Staring II

your opinion is appriciated

I can't complement you enough on your portraiture skills Richard. Another very nice shot. I can see you're able to make your subjects quite comfortable before the lens to get such natural expressions.

 

Happy new year to you and glad to see you back after a long time.

Hi Arnab, thank you alot for your compliments! If I look at the other ratings tough, it seems like alot of people have an other opinion about that :)

 

I haven't been around here alot indeed, but I'm glad I'm back.. now let me see what you did the past time!

I commented on this as a photograph, not on the quality of digitization. In that regard it can considerably improve ... e.g. the noisy(?) black hair and the washed out sky in the background. I still find it attractive as a photograph. Not too common these days to come across unposed, natural portraits of people with a friendly smile. Again -- this does well even without eye contact.