Judges Comments

Selecting a figure / model to work with, implies some connection or story to be told ? The figure has a downward gaze to his hands,
which is also where I want to look, but the applied effects don't help reinforce any story there. Is he trying to catch the rain drops ? The dark
sky makes the image top heavy, so out of balance, and the bright base gives my eye an escape route through the lower right of the page.