Head count

Head count, a photo by alexanderjblair on Flickr.

Candid street portraits is an area that interests me a lot. I think that this is one of my best to date. A combination of elements, rather than a simple portrait. Apparently painting his own face (he isn't), the background 'skull', the processing (classic portrait approach), black and white (a dominant colour in the background would have distracted from the focus on the eye patch).