What an excellent, gorgeous, image, Dierk - you are a master at portraiture - there's a wonderful heart and soul to this that makes it such a superb work.

This is an EXCELLENT portrait per se. But I think that apart from this, I think that it combines something of Hallsman's academic style and Bresson's humanistic approach in an ingenious manner. Your portraits in general have these elements. Excellent Dierk, just excellent.
Dimitris V. Georgopoulos, Athens, Greece.

brilliant!

thanks, mike and bwhitcomb1
I am very much surprised about the reaction in flickr

Wonderful quality to this portait shot. Beautiful tones, lighting and bokeh. Well done!