As I'm browsing through the pages of b/w side challenge images, I have to say I'm finding myself repeatedly popping open thumbnails to see that the images belong to you. These are my kind of photos. I'm not a huge fan of texture overlays, but the images themselves are so strong and work so well in b/w that it hardly matters.
Thank goodness for side challenges so stuff like this can get a little play on the site.
wonderful. it is hilarious and brilliant that you got such great shots at your own opening. you've blurred more than your subject matter. you've blurred art and artifice, culture and inspiration.
I'm not sure what processing you did, but I really like how this came out. You've captured quite the expression there. My little nitpick would be what appears to be a mouth towards the top; somehow it's begging for attention.
Maybe weird and blurry, but I like the expression in the face,the nice contrasts and the "line" from the topleft to bottomright. Perhaps the white spot in the bottomleft should't be there, but that's just nitpicking.