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...

I agree...when I loaded it on this site, it did appear more saturated than intended. I lessened it a bit. Thanks.

I know exactly what you mean. I lived across the river from people that raised them. Their screeching, as it echoed off the water, could really get to you. My parents lived next door to them also and they were a mess! Definitely beautiful but with bad habits!