An elderly man in his 70s or 80s, head and shoulders shot against landscape in background. The man is caught in a pool of light like headlights and a flat expanse of dirt or sand, deeply scarred by two tire tracks, stretches behind him. Distinct groups of bushy trees can be seen some distance away, lit by a light source of frame.
Light falls across his face like an eye mask. The focus is pulled immediately towards his eyes, particularly the one on the left, which is bathed in light and looks fixed in an unusually open stare. With pupil contracted, a hard black dot in the middle. The eye on the right looks almost closed, a slit, darkness and a glint within puckered skin beneath.
The man's hair is white, short, falling to over his right ear, thick and textured. He has rounded shoulders and wears an open necked garment, exposing the throat and the hollow at the base of it. His expression overall is one of calmness at peace apart from the eye, which looks startled in a state of alarm. The lighting is dramatic, as if on a film set, and shadows pull from the right.
The shot is one of vulnerability, yet the man looks approachable and resolved, though caught alone in the night, in the midst of a stark landscape.
