Very intriguing .

Superb capture, dedication and post work Bill. God bless.

I love this high key style!

Make a good album cover this. For a blues band.

Great capture and postwork Wonderful dedication to Mark

Great atmosphere! I will try this effect for myself - its a wonderfull inspiration!

Yes, Mark's high key renderings have created a following of imitators of his unique black and white style. Can you blame them? I'm even guilty of that myself. Anyway, terrific job, Bill, everything is so sharply delineated in this one. And, Happy Birthday, anahata.c/Mark!

I really like the dark area, center foreground. I was looking at this in a larger-than-life format, and saw that with no context. Do you see the left-facing creature? I believe it's wielding a sword, and perhaps wearing a scarf. Or perhaps a bicycle tire. :P This is SO well done. I love the result you got! A wonderful image for Mark's birthday. :)

stunning work and great dedi

This is a wonderful, graphic image, Bill - I love this! It reminds me of when I got hold of some litho film years ago... I had fun putting it under the enlarger, and seeing the images that resulted when it was developed.

look like you doing a good job here. I seen this place a time or two. I looks like it busy

Love what you have done with the pic!! x

superb effect and dedication

AMAZING WORK

Excellent capture and postwork on this candid study; beautifully done, Bill!

Reading through the comments, I'd just gotten done reading Harry's wonderful comment (thank you Harry), when I came upon Tara's, and read about a creature with a sword and wearing a scarf and maybe a bicycle tire (!!!), and now I'm TOTALLY confused! Well with all due respect, I don't see a guy with sword, though I do see a thing, front center, who looks a bit like a horse with some snakes on it and maybe a major identity crisis---so I'll have to let that go. But Bill, this is photo-journalistic: In your highly etched black and white, it feels like a capture by a street photographer, which I know you are at times, and it's a pleasure to see you do this kind of work. The hard black and white with all that grain on the edges makes this perfect as a blues and jazz pic; and given that this is N.Orleans, that makes total sense. Fine perspective, moving back on an angle---ie, we're looking in---and you've let just the right details come to the fore. Ie, the pics with crowds or musicians, incl one in front of a trombone player: You picked all the right details to bring out. It feels relaxed and open, and crowded and intense---real New Orleans stuff. Really fine work, and thank you so much for doing it for me for my birthday, and for all the great support you've given me all this time, and making me feel so special. Thanks for this wonderful gift, I'm very grateful. (ps...ok I think I see the sword. But he's also carrying a machine-gun magazine---and skip the cheap jokes about subscriptions, layouts, etc---((magazines???))---and is having a bad hair day. I don't know. I can't find a sword, let's just leave it at that. There's no sword. None...)

great really bw graphics, Bill

I like the treatment Bill, nicely done!