Holy smoke

Helene Kippert, 9 months ago

Great shot!

Jessica Tremp, 9 months ago

bloody fantastic

Warren Anthon..., 9 months ago

Stunning, great detail

Joanne Piechota, 9 months ago

Lovely… well done.

Tamara Mason, 9 months ago

WOW!!!!! Amazing Tone and Expression!!! WOW!!!

Wendy Slee, 9 months ago

beautiful image…full of character …..well done…..

Peco Grozdanovski, 9 months ago

Wonderful photograph…Bravo.. My compliments!

elbambino, 9 months ago

holy portrait..!!! great work again !

Doug Thost, 9 months ago

Anthony your people shots are stunning! When I grow up, I wanna take pics like these!! Very, very good…

Belinda Leopold, 9 months ago

Beautiful treatment!

Antanas, 9 months ago

Beautiful portrait

MuscularTeeth, 8 months ago

this is one of the best photos ive seen recently.
i love this one.

Jeff Burns, 8 months ago

Fabulous shot

BengLim, 8 months ago

Great shoot, like the color.

ndiginiz, 8 months ago

Tena koe ehoa
Well first things first, the preview thumbnail doesn’t do this image any justice at all!
There’s a strange but comfortable contradiction of the impression of a “monk smoking” that many people might find interesting as I have. I think that wheres a majority of the visual impetus is derived from at least in IMHO.
His impressed persona his gentle and relaxed and the years of dedication show vaguely in the smooth and subtly wrinkled skin texture. I really love the sepia-like tonal quality as for me it equates my westernized impression of humility and reverence I’d expect from a monk. The vignette works well to focalise the subject with a kind and gentle accent.

Lee Grissett, 8 months ago

Very bold and beautiful shot, you really capture the moment!

Arzu, 8 months ago

Great shot, lovely tones

Alyson Pearson, 8 months ago

great shot!
love the title too!

bites, 8 months ago

Awesome shot !!!!!!!

Jodie Carruthers, 7 months ago

Brilliant

Marie Magnusson, 7 months ago

very charismatic and personal, you take amazing portraits and this one is a stunner among them

Katewah, 7 months ago

This is absolutely beautiful. Fantastic lighting, great personality in the shot. You’ve done a brilliant job.

m. nelson, 7 months ago

fantastic tones…amazing powerful shot

Douzy, 7 months ago

What a capture!! Stunning portrait and perfect moment.

Keegan Wong, 7 months ago

Once again, great work there. Love the tones and that tobacco filter goes well with this doesn’t it? :D

deborah parker, 7 months ago

Woe!!!! this is just AMAZING!!!!! love your folio of faces… check out my “smoking man”!!!!

Judith Oppenhe..., 7 months ago

stunning image

chilloutbuddy, 7 months ago

PP is spot on, great job!

Tony Lomas, 7 months ago

Perfect shot and great treatment. One of the best portraits I have ever seen!!!

German Saravanja, 7 months ago

Beautiful capture! I didn’t know they were allowed to smoke- LOL!

shawhouse, 7 months ago

fantastic portrait. Your portfolio is uniformly stunning, wow! bravo! looking forward to more of your work.

Diane, 6 months ago

Definitely my favourite from the homepage today!

berndt2, 6 months ago

Excellent portrait shot – great personality and character

Ciaran O'Hagan, 6 months ago

very cheeky image..excellent

Shae, 6 months ago

Beautiful!!

Andrew Edgar, 6 months ago

stunning

Xenia Victori..., 6 months ago

fantastic!!!

Pratik Agrawal, 6 months ago

amazing expression!

Nicholas Averre, 6 months ago

Wow.. superb portrait !! lovely work.

hallucingenic, 6 months ago

i like this :)

Skip Hunt, 6 months ago

perfect!

ElRobbo, 6 months ago

You’dve become a millioinaire from promoting smoking campaigns with this pic 20 or so years ago! How times have changed in our society, heh? I bet this fella has been oblivious to all of that, and still enjoys every moment! Fantastic image, Anthony! Well taken (perfect DOF), great treatment – very well done!

Jason Moses, 6 months ago

As above, the field is perfect (just the right shoulder softened), and the treatment works so well. I know you didn’t give him his expression, but you’ve done a good job catching it.

Andrew Hildebrand, 6 months ago

what a great expression. wonderful colour and tones.

Carine Boustany, 6 months ago

This is perfect in every way. well done

Stephen Colquitt, 6 months ago

Love the cheeky title!

phil1950, 6 months ago

Great portrait, nice detail in the face full of character. Cool title

sweetscent62, 6 months ago

Wonderful portrait and great title to go with it : ) Well done Anthony! Wendy

u03ajp4, 6 months ago

seminal

Mohammed Al Ib..., 6 months ago

great capture!!

Maureen Bloesch, 6 months ago

I love wrinkled faces…they show so much….

kipishiux, 6 months ago

Fantastic portret! I like it veery much.

BengLim, 6 months ago

Great shoot!!

AMHERN0525, 6 months ago

great shot…love the tone and detail

JohnScott, 6 months ago

maybe a “buddha stick”?

julzcards, 6 months ago

very arresting!

Angela E.L. Cl..., 6 months ago

Love it!

Jason Anderson, 6 months ago

Excellent vision – the detail of the facial expression behind the wisp of smoke is awesome!

bobbymcleod, 6 months ago

viewed large – an absolute must – one of the best portraits i seen in a while!

Mikko Piuhola, 6 months ago

Great capture and nice colors =D

CroiBriste, 6 months ago

Hahahaha I always imagined that Buddhist monks would be forbidden from smoking ^^
Still, a great photo with a great sense of humour!

The monk is cute :) his face has so much character and his expression is so mischievious, as if he’s breakin’ the ruels and he knows. smoking round the back of the bike sheds ^_-

tybatterham, 6 months ago

Great photo and extremely well finished. Subdued tones and great contrast. All in all just a perfect portraiture shot.

Zaldy Infante, 6 months ago

i love this portrait. the colour, the expression, the smoke. brilliant!

Diana Calvario, 6 months ago

Very expressive image! Although I don’t like to see people smoking on pictures, this one is different …but I cant explain why … Well done and thank you for sharing :-)
Diana

VioDeSign, 6 months ago

Fabulous shot! Great job!

www. funkeldin..., 6 months ago

fab …. smoking is the only ‘sin’ monks are allowed ... great photo

simplicityphoto, 6 months ago

Superb…......Wonderful capture!!!

Lukas Carruthers, 6 months ago

stunning!

Michael Wolf, 6 months ago

superb pic!

popescucalin, 6 months ago

amazing work

Damiend, 6 months ago

Very nice!!!

Julien Bertrand, 6 months ago

loooooove it—what art is to me

Eolea, 6 months ago

great sepia capture!! nice job framing him…

DawsonImages, 6 months ago

Excellent

Jen Arthur, 6 months ago

One of my favorite photos. Ever.

AnnM, 6 months ago

This shot shows so much character, it tells its own story. I love it.

Miss Tash, 6 months ago

Anthony, I have seen your photos in some travel magazines- I cant remember exactly what ones but they are truly amazing- well done!

Anthony Begovic in reply to Miss Tash’s comment, 6 months ago

Thanks for the nice comment, Miss Task! Much appreciated!
Let me know which travel magazines they were, if you remember, as this is the first time I’ve heard about it. :)

Miss Tash, 6 months ago

I’m not sure honestly! It was somewhere whilst I was in Europe- I think it had to do with an Intriped Travel advertisement or something like that! Do you mind me asking what sort of camera you use? I’m an avid traveller, and am no slowly taking my photography obsession a bit more seriously! Anyfeed back would be appreciated! But pls keep up the awesome pics- theyre some of the best ive seen so far! :)

braphoto, 6 months ago

HOLY WORK!!! well done!

Anthony Begovic in reply to Miss Tash’s comment, 6 months ago

If it’s Intrepid, that’s ok. I won one of their photo competitions last year, so they must be publishing the work.
I use a Canon 1D Mark II N, with 16-35, 24-70 and 70-200 f/2.8 lenses for most of my work. It’s a great camera for traveling because it’s dust-proof – but it’s darn heavy!

JKomendanovic, 5 months ago

Excellent portrait!:)

Jean M. Laffitau, 5 months ago

BRAVO!!! What an outstanding portrait shot!

Henk Stolk, 5 months ago

wonderful work

JudyBJ, 5 months ago

Splendid portrait and beautiful tones

ErinPhotography, 5 months ago

Wonderful lighting and effect.

phoggy, 4 months ago

Brilliant!

Matthew Stewart, 3 months ago

Wow, beautiful dude. Heading there myself in about 2 weeks.

Carla Jandelle..., 3 months ago

i feel like this was or SHOULD be in a National Geographic magazine…..the lighting and the sepia tone…are perfect!

melanie tschid..., 3 months ago

there’s not much more i can add to the above comments, it truly is a wonderful shot!

Lefever, 3 months ago

OMG your stuff is fantastic.

darby, 3 months ago

is he buddhist going into zen state? its pretty funny or satirical anyway!

Mark Higgins, 3 months ago

wow, expressive and the tones are really suited.
Particularly like the puff of smoke and quizzical look.
Enjoying your folio. great stuff.

Stefanie Vermi..., 3 months ago

Brilliant!

Jeremy Harrington, 3 months ago

fantastic portrait.. you have quite a stunning portfolio

Caroline Gorka, about 1 month ago

Excellent work … love so much about this

Tollwut, 23 days ago

FANTASTIC!