Comrades in doubt

The three of us -- D, P, and I -- have been friends since we were

five years old (or four in my case, since I'm the youngest). Here,

last night, we were among about a dozen old friends together for a

Christmastime party. I don't remember who was talking when I took

this picture, but neither D nor P seems impressed.



I was using the Fujifilm X100 at its ISO800 setting, with no attention

at all to white balance. The picture's colour was really "warm" (that

is, badly orange) so I dropped it through a Paint Shop Pro blue

filter to get this b&w version. I really should be shooting "raw" to

make colour correction easier but, after more than a year with it, I'm

still getting used to this, my best digital camera.