My friend Philip!

The is a saying that a picture can say a thousand words! This true and especially the photos of the human face. The light, dark shadows that cross the skin. The eyes that are deep and thoughtful. The windows of thehuman soul.
The depth of the portrait is heightened by the over exposed black and white photo. Taken in the style of the photographer Ansel Adams.

The Face

There is a face I know too well,
A face I dread to see,
So vain it is, so eloquent
Of all futility.

It is a human face that hides
A monkey soul within,
That bangs about, that beats a gong,
That makes a horrid din.

Sometimes the monkey soul will sprawl
Athwart the human eyes,
And peering forth, will flesh its pads,
And utter social lies.

So wretched is this face, so vain,
So empty and forlorn,
You well may say that better far
This face had not been born.

By Stevie Smith

A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson.