Eye 'O' Wisdom!

I had to see who was wise enough to do this crop.

Wayne...I thought this was a way to highlight the man's wisdom lines;glad it caught your attention.Salutations-Laurent

Excellent Laurent, it worked............Holger

Holger..Thank you kindly;glad you like!Salutations-Laurent

Very original and expressive portrait, Laurent! Tragic wisdom is read on this face. Congratulations! Sincerely, Tatiana

Hi Tatiana.Thank you kindly.I could not understand what he was saying but by the way those who could were reacting,I knew he had some wisdom.Salutations-Laurent

A respectful, iconic, and attention-grabbing portrait. (I don't see tragedy, just the beauty of aging.)

Fred..You are right...no tragedy or stress here as the man projected an elegant grace of aging in peace.Thank you for for the kind observation.Salutations-Laurent

very good portrait and composition

Mehmet...Thank you kindly.Salutations-Laurent

Laurent, congratulations on the POTW. This man's face may be ravaged by sunlight and time, but this has not diminished his character. He perseveres. - - My best, michael

Michael...Thank you so much.This gentle-man was indeed an example of perseverence and one could further appreciate this knowing the rather severe conditions of his daily existance.Salutations-Laurent

To the ELVES-Thank you for your selection of this image as POTW...I am thrilled but mostly honoured and wish I could share this with the kind gentleman who let me seize his face full of wisdom.Salutations-Laurent

Cher Laurent: Comment ta le vous? Major congratulations! Wow! Ingenious, creative framing. This is truly high quality Photography, old-school originality. To comment on the obvious feat of the magnificent command of technical details, would be to ruin the pleasure of just looking at this great image for posterity. Bravo! Meillieurs salutations. DG

Daniel..Merci bien.Toujours content de te lire et surtout de prendre connaissance de ton appréciation détaillée;this is the first of my images to seize the attention of the ELVES for POTW and I am mostly grateful to the gentle man who let me point the camera and put his unique stare on film .In PP,I tweaked the scan of the small print and sheared it in halve...just to see and it seemed ok to me and I put it up for critique.Glad it caught your trained and appreciative eye my friend.Salutations amicales-Laurent

Laurent,

I don’t know how I missed this extraordinary photo. A face that has experienced much history! Your composition is very effective as is the very sharp focus! A photo well deserving of recognition! Congratulations!

Hi Warren..Thank you for this kind appreciation.This one I had posted some time back as a full face color portrait and I pulled it back out and reworked it this way.Glad it caught your attention.Merci encore et salutations-Laurent

very nicely done Laurent !!!

Eyes...Whenever I get nostalgique about my time living in Indonesia,I dig out some of these old shots and rework them.Glad you like how this turned out!Merci et salutations-Laurent

Excellent photography, well done,

Thomas...Thank you for viewing and for the appreciation.Salutations-Laurent