this is beautiful author, are you a catholic?

No i am not but i came up with this idea & i really liked it!!!

well you perfectly captured my relgion, I am catholic and this photo is something my grandmother would frame in her house, fantastic job, really..

Really powerfull shot !!! Great picture ! Good luck Author !

I am also catholic and this is an amazing capture! I hope it does really well

Powerful, GL

Powerful shot!

Good luck

Nice shooting author......

Well, I'm about as far from religious as you can get, but this is a very nice shot. I like the DOF and think the B&W really helps. Nice job

Fabulous strong image...best of luck

Another Catholic chiming in here to say that the subject matter is indeed very powerful, but also of note is the amazing DOF you have. I'm noticing a LITTLE halo around your model's knuckles but I think its just the monitor I'm on (in class at the moment). Great work, author!

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THIS IS AWESOME. i love the emotion pouring from it. granted, the upper left corner is really blown out, but... i just LOVE the shot. really do.

Thanks Jaded, I know what you mean about the upper corner unfortunately because this picture was taken at about 11pm in times square the only way to get the guy's face exposed properly was to not worry about the LCD billboard in the BG. If I had had the time I would have bracketed this but this was quite literally a snapshot as I was being pushed forward by the surge of the crowd.

Usually I'm pretty militant about blown out exposure, but in this case I think it might actually help. The light helps emphasize the shape of the guy's head. The backlighting of the beard from it also helps a lot. He almost looks like Rasputin... the "Mad Monk!" Maybe it's "holy light." Nice job

(This shot would be no where as good if the guy had hair)

I wish I could vote on this It is awesome!

Why can't you vote, Kellie? Great capture btw...

wonderful shot, so much emotion

Fantastic shot author...well done

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I used to have a job that included driving college students all over the west in a 15 passenger van... we'd always sing the old song "I don't care if it rains or freezes, as long as I have my plastic Jesus - sittin' on the dash board of my car!" This reminds me of that.

what a great find! good job!

wow great find and fantastic image...best of luck author

great shot and wonderful processing.

Amazing shot! I assume you were in a moving car, wonderful capture with no movement or camera shake.

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this is beautiful

Author, this is a great capture, but I cannot help but think you might have used it somewhere before............. was it, perhaps, on the old PST site?

Beautiful, love the light.

Great find,fantastic shot...well done author

Very nice shot