Thank you everyone who took time to comment & vote. I shall try to improve as per suggestions. For now, enjoy the poetry part of "visual poetry" :) Thanks
I would really advise cloning out the veins on the left hand side of the eye. Additionally, for some reason this shot really worked better with a blue eye. Other than that this is a solid reproduction of the original. 6.
This is very well done, a nice imitaiton of the original. The only things that bother me is the eyebrow seems a bit cut off on the right and the eye got cut off on the left, the corner of the eye isn't completed. Otherwise, very well done. An 8
Without going back to the orignal, and whilst this is a fine copy of that image, I feel that the fade to white is too sudden here - whether I felt that about the orignal I don't recall. Nicely done.