Portraits

My first set of portraits are of an interesting guy I work with. His name is Russell. He used to be in the military, and so now he obsessively shaves his head, chain smokes and has a lot of interesting stories. I randomly asked him if I could take his photos for class on a whim. He's quite the interesting character. For instance, he plays the guitar very well and has a pet turtle named Jane Elizabeth. I followed him around a bit, trying to take photos to show how interesting of a character he is. Anyway, most of the photos of him didn't turn out the way I'd hoped, and most of the best ones are of him smoking. But I didn't know him very well at all, and now I have a new work friend!
These look great on my laptop, but looked a little dark when I saw them using my sister's computer. So please let me know if they're too dark.

He ended up knowing some things about photography, and taught me a couple of them. We had a couple of cool light painting photos, but not cool enough to post. So just because, he's a slow-shutter photo of him in front of a major city street in Enid.