For those of you that have been following this blog for some time, you may remember that a little over a year ago, I returned from a tour of Afghanistan.  An interesting time and an opportunity to capture some amazing pictures.  Well they mean a lot to me.

On my return an artist saw one of the portraits I had made and asked if they could interpret it with pastels.  This morning I got an email with the end result.  I just wanted to share it as I think a lot of the character has been captured here.  It is perhaps a little unfair to see both media side by side but I wanted to show that it is not a direct copy, there is definitely an artists interpretation which I think is so important.

Let me know what you think.

The Artist is my Dad and he only began doing this after he retired.