Environmental portrait of a man with beard

great classical portrait my friend!!!! with all your experiments I thought that you forgot how to take a picture.....all the best!!!!

Maybe I did, mon ami! This picture is three decades (at least) old! But, you sure are right that I'm going back to real photography! Thank you for your sincere critique of my overall engaging! PDE

PDE, although abstract photography is as real as street photography in my opinion, your posting this image reminds us off the quality of all your work, not just abstracts. The detail in this person's hair, face, ears, neck and shirt is sufficiently sharp, but I am glad you didn't sharpen his face. It still retains a natural appearance. In my opinion, his look is exceptionally interesting. Even though his head is turned slightly to our right, his right eye, unlike his left is looking straight ahead. Simply Exceptional! - - My best always, michael

Michael, the reminders of those times of B&W film photolithography, from Canon AT-1 and Canon AE-1, through Magnifax enlarger to Paterson developing tank are still packed in nylon bags in my home! I'm not going back to that kind of photography, but, I'm sure prone to go back to common, shooting photography! Thank you for your support! PDE

Great shot, Pierre! I really like this expressive character perfectly captured in a street environment. Congratulations! Sincerely, Tatiana

Thank you, Tatiana! PDE

You've always shown us to be a good photographer, this beautiful portrait shows that you were already very good 30 years ago, ciao Giangiorgio

Yes, Giangiorgio, it is afterwards when I became a bad photographer! Thank you very much, mio caro mico! PDE