Mark great to see you still doing the portrait work.
Love the eyes were these contacts or did you darken them?
I think the picture is a bit flat for a B&W shot hopefully others will come along and tell me to wind my neck in as it is only my opinion and no I am really bad at B&W conversions.
Do you have a colour version? I am guessing that the skin is like an earth affect and maybe look better in colour?
Then I decided to experiment a bit so I got an image with rusty metal doors and blended them into the skin so thats what you see there. Theres no colour version of it as I was just experimenting as to how far I could take a mono image with it being Halloween. My 10 year old thinks its the coolest thing ever :)