it is a very interesting portrait

Wow. This is great. I love faces like this!

Tom, this is quite the face. The light is a bit harsh for my taste (hard to control when you're riding a yak across Tibet or wherever this was), but ohmigod what a face...what a life you've caught here. Quite remarkable.

As an aside, this theme (In Your Face) has the tagline "Self Portraits with Edge" which I, too, missed the first time I uploaded a shot. Unless I'm totally missing something, "Tom Carter" ain't the name of the woman in the image ;-)

greath face ! but also for me the sun light is to agressive and the level of the photo is above the eyes, i guess the old lady is not tall.

Thank you all for the comments. I am sorry I didn't know these were self-portraits only; should I remove the image?
About the photo itself, the sunlight in Tibet is a real doozy; it's so harsh that many images come out pure black. Other times they are all washed out like this one; I tried my best.

amazing... just amazing.

Very nice work in a difficult light - you succeed in bringing us an amazing face!

Thanks,
Jon