This is one of the most simple and most profound photos I've ever seen. It says so many things by capturing so little from the human appearance: a palm, an old, wrinkled palm and a teardrop, clear like the morning dew. My mind starts to build a story around the image almost instantly. It could be the palm of an old man, a grandpa trying to catch and wipe away the tears of a little child, or of a youngster. Or it could be the palm of a lady crying for her long gone youth. Or the hand of a widow who cries for her dead husband... It can even be the hand of a worker and this "drop" can be sweat. But the position of the hand tells me that it's more likely to be a teardrop. If we are to move from the message to the technique, I must say I love the incredible quality of the detail, the texture of the skin so well captured. And I love the light that comes from above and behind, suggesting the light of a sunset. I think that the lightening makes a huge difference here, because if it had been from another angle, the drop and the skin texture were not valued as they are here. In conclusion, this photo gets 5 stars from my side, both for vision and for technique.