Thank you MossyB for your comment, though I do not agree with you. I have deliberately used this effect as much to the image to be make it harder. I read an article of a photographer who is editing all his streetphotography pictures in this way to the increase the drama. I liked that style...
The strong contrast there shows all wrinkles, the 2 scars on the cheek and blemishes.
I think that's a matter of taste

thanks to both of you

No, i know this man and some stories of his hard life... he works as a electrician and is trying to feed his family... sometimes i meet him in a pub where he tries to drink his sorrows away ;-(
but thats also what my father is doing...

C'est la vie...

ThI agree with you. Just couldn't stop her words of wisdom. Thanks