close-up photo of man's face

My wife Sarah was driving the both of us to town as the sun rose on Friday this week. I decided to take the camera out & take some pictures of her, as the rising sun was casting some very intense lighting across her face. While adjusting the settings on my Cannon T7i, I turned the lens towards myself, & shot a few test photos. Later, when going through the photos to pick good ones for editing, this shot caught my eye! I had to decrease the lighting drastically for the intense light on one half of my face, & in doing so made the rest of the shot sink into full shadow. The result was eyecatching