Old Style — Old man sharpening the knife

So I was visiting a temple in Thailand, decided to walk around the place then came across this old man sharpening the knife and cutting his own hair to test the sharpness.

Mods: Let me know if there are too many pics.
I tried to make them small 300x300 so it load faster :P

Size 1500x 900 can be found here

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That shaving his own head gives me the willies.
A closeup of that would be more ideal.

i should have it, let me have a dig.

Is he showing the guy in the one pic that he still has all his fingers?

HAHAHAHAHAHAH yeah..!!

in my opinion, you've got some beautiful shots and tell a great story. Only issue for me is you have too many pics. As a series I'd bet you could narrow it down to 5 really strong images and have a much greater impact - especially if you had a closeup of him testing the blade on his own head...

(Technically they're really strong. the processing technique and the sharpness of the subject/separation caused by background blur looks so good it almost feels like this was shot on film with a medium format camera.)

Thanks for your comment c_boogie, your right about too many pics and I'm glad you like the processing.